About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Ansible Lead Engineer who will join the IaC engineering team within the CTO organization. This candidate will be part of the Ansible platform engineering team developing and maintaining the ansible CI/CD pipeline. The ideal candidate has a strong and broad technical background in designing, developing, and deploying automation solutions using Ansible in addition to building solutions to meet the needs of our customers and partners.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
• Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
• Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
• Build CI/CD orchestration pipelines for ansible and deploy/test across environments
• Integrate with enterprise tools and environment standards
• Shape technical proposals to be commercially acceptable to the customer
• Defines the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing
• Contributes to the overall platform architecture
• Design solutions of significant size and complexity
• Collaborate with Application teams and onboard new application platforms onto the Ansible framework and author playbooks
• Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
• Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements
• Drive solutions to reduce recovery
• Review and analyze solutions for security, secrets management and key rotations
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
• Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
• Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goal

Required Qualifications, US:

• 5 years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Experience in creating and deploying Ansible frameworks for large customer base
• Hands on development experience writing ansible playbooks
• Experience managing configuration, build and deployments for enterprise software solutions.
• Experience using tools such as: Jira, Harness, GitHub, Jenkins, etc
• Development experience with Python or Perl or other scripting languages.
• Knowledge of Linux technologies
• Multi-tasking experience - managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills – written and spoken.
• Understanding of network fundamentals, APIs and HTTP protocol
• Ability to understand critical issues and bring appropriate resolution to complex issues
• High degree of professionalism, self-motivation and problem-solving attitude

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with ServiceNow
• Experiencing working with Microsoft (Azure) or Google (GCP) cloud providers
• Experience working on platform automation team

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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