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Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Solace

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119000.00 - 224000.00 USD / Year
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Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer–Solace to join the Solace Engineering team. We design and engineer low-latency Solace platform made up of Solace PubSub+ Event Brokers (Hardware Appliances) that support our most critical applications. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Solace infrastructure engineer with a forward-looking mindset centered around the 3As: Automation, APIs, and AI. You are a strong advocate of DevOps, SRE, and Agile practices and play a key role in designing and building a standardized, scalable, and resilient hardware-based Solace platform. As a lead engineer, you will bring a strategic engineering mindset and deep experience managing complex enterprise infrastructure. In this role, you will collaborate closely with infrastructure teams and architects to design self-service, highly available, and low-maintenance platforms. You will also empower development and operations teams by building robust, value-added tooling and automation through scripts and APIs.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead complex initiatives to design, build, and engineer infrastructure solutions supporting mission-critical business applications
  • Drive an automation-first infrastructure engineering strategy, ensuring infrastructure is designed to be programmatically provisioned, configured, and managed
  • Apply AI-assisted engineering capabilities to accelerate infrastructure development, including code generation, configuration validation, design analysis, and standardization
  • Participate in projects to modernize and evolve Solace infrastructure architecture, aligning with target-state engineering principles
  • Evaluate internal and external technologies, including AI-enabled engineering platforms, to support infrastructure build, automation, and architectural goals
  • Design infrastructure patterns and tooling that reduce manual effort and improv repeatability, reliability, and engineering quality
  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaboration with engineering teams
  • Design, code, test, debug, and document infrastructure automation and tooling using Agile engineering practices
  • Make technical decisions related to architecture, automation frameworks, AI usage, implementation plans, and engineering tradeoffs
  • Identify engineering risks and dependencies early and define mitigation strategies through design and automation
  • Direct daily risk and control activities, ensuring infrastructure engineering aligns with policies, procedures, and standards
  • Recommend engineering approaches that improve cost efficiency, scalability, resiliency, and speed of delivery
  • Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, managers, customers, and vendors to resolve complex engineering challenges

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of middleware engineering or administration experience using Solace PubSub+ hardware appliance offerings
  • 5+ years of experience building and managing enterprise-scale infrastructure using automation
  • 5+ years of overall infrastructure management experience
  • 3+ years of advanced coding or scripting skills, with a strong focus on infrastructure automation (e.g., Python or similar)

Nice to have:

  • 5+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as RTView, Grafana, Prometheus, and BigPanda
  • 5+ years of automation experience using Python, SEMP APIs, GitOps, and integration with CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
  • Expert-level knowledge of Splunk, including dashboard creation and alert configuration
  • Experience with scheduling tools such as Autosys or similar platforms
  • Ability to provide Level 3 (L3) engineering support for operations and development teams
  • Familiarity with Tomcat, Java, and database technologies
  • Expert understanding of infrastructure engineering technologies, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and remediate complex technical engineering and support issues
What we offer:
  • Health benefits
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Disability benefits
  • Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Critical caregiving leave
  • Discounts and savings
  • Commuter benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Scholarships for dependent children
  • Adoption reimbursement

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 25, 2026

Expiration:
April 07, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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