About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Middleware Messaging Kafka operations.

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in high-level technical concepts spanning technology and business to drive strategic initiatives.
• Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design, and test solutions ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Design and implement complex system upgrades to maintain performance and compliance.
• Responsible for designing, implementing, and automating Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises, as well as executing routine system maintenance procedures to ensure operational resilience.
• Preferred experience in leading and executing data center migration projects with a focus on middleware platforms, including planning, configuration, and integration of application servers and related components.
• Direct daily Risk and Control flow of Compliance, focusing on policies, procedures, and work standards to ensure success.
• Outline and implement product support, maintenance, and enhancements to ensure optimal system performance.
• Develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent recurrence.
• Design and implement observability dashboards that provide a unified, single-pane-of-glass view for executive-level oversight.
• Employ monitoring tools such as Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk for business applications and operations teams.
• Contribute to the analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements to support solution design.
• Contribute to the testing of business applications and technical infrastructure requirements.
• Generate documentation, operational policies, and procedures to support governance and compliance.
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.

Required Qualifications/ Must‑Have Skills:

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications /Good‑to‑Have Skills

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware environments, including Kafka, Confluent Platforms.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Apache Kafka in enterprise production environments
• Deep expertise in setting up confluent platform including KRAFT, Brokers, Schema registry, Rest proxy, Kafka Connect, KsqlDB
• , Cluster Linking.
• Mandatory Experience in deploying and operating Kafka on OpenShift (OCP) with Confluent Operator.
• Expertise in provisioning Topics, ACLs, Idempotent Producers, Consumers
• Proficient in tuning the GC, heap, partitions, ISR, retention, quotas
• Expert troubleshooting the consumer lag issues, slowness, Message loss & duplication, Throughput, broker crashes, offset issues, disk saturation.
• Expert is setting up Kafka Security with TLS.
• Experience in Kraft mode setup and migration.
• Experience on setting and configuring Prometheus and Grafana Dashboards for Platform health.

• Knowledge of large-scale performance tuning and benchmarking with tools like KafkaPerf or kafkacat/kcat.
• Exposure to cloud-based Kafka (Confluent Cloud, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs for Kafka).
• Experience with Schema evolution, compatibility modes, and Avro/JSON/Protobuf.
• Automation/scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible).
• Experience with other messaging platforms (Solace, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ).
• Networking concepts: BGP, routing, multicast, certificates at enterprise scale.
• Experience managing capacity planning and throughput optimization.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Confluent certifications (CCDAK, CCP) are a plus.

• Experience supporting an enterprise-level environment.
• Thorough understanding compliance standards and risk management practices for systems within the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector.
• Provide implementation support for key risk initiatives.
• ITIL v4 Certification.

Posting End Date:

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

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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