Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Wells Fargo · Hyderabad · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: Ansible, Kafka, Linux, Python

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About the role

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will: Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications. Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure. Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals. Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future. Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors. Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices. Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements. Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success. Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results. Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals. Interact with customer and vendor. Required Qualifications: 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: 10 + years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance and IBM MQ Distributed maintaining huge Distributed Clusters. 10+ years of Experience in IBM MQ on different clustering techniques like RHCS, TSAMP, VCS etc. 10+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance High Availability Clustering and Data Replication setup across multiple DCs. Experience on IBM MQ on zLinux, Linux, AIX OS flavors. Expertise on Handling the Large-scale migrations from MQ on On-prem/Cloud to MQ Hardware Appliance. Expertise in handling the MQ hardware Appliance support, High Availability Clustering, Backup/Restore Procedures. Design and establish procedures to build Appliances on Multi DC with replication and define an end‑to‑end automation strategy (tooling, ownership, and delivery timelines). Advise on MQ Hardware Appliance with capacity modelling and appliance sizing guidance to enable accurate footprint and cost planning. Help build/mature the MQ Hardware Appliance in terms of monitoring and alerting solution, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day‑1 operational requirement. Define and enforce a formal operational readiness framework on MQ Hardware Appliance encompassing security, compliance, access control, monitoring, observability, architecture, and support models before any production onboarding. Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership. Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Provide assistance in Problem determination and resolution at L2/L3 level. Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented at Enterprise level. Performing DR/BCP tests, retro on the activities and maintaining BCP documents. Experience working with Vendors on Product Troubleshooting. Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for Admin and Support operations. Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics. Job Expectations: Hands-on experience at scale on Middleware (IBM MQ- [Appliance, x86 & zLinux], IBM Message Broker, KAFKA, Solace) Administration performing activities build, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, deploys, configuring, patching and compliance. Experience in configuring HA clusters like RHCS / Veritas /TSAMP and Multi Instance MQ qmgrs and troubleshooting issues involving HA clusters. Experience on IBM MQ on zOS, zLinux, Linux, AIX. Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics. Good understanding of MQ monitoring tools like IR360. Hands on experience on IBM API Connect and manage WMB topology, ACE upgrades. Experience with Kafka Connect worker and connectors (Source and Sink). Protect the Kafka cluster with ingress connections and tune the Quotas, Request Percentages. Experience on setting Confluent platform with MRC and SBK. Ability to troubleshoot Authentication, Authorization issues. Experience SSL certificate management. Experience in using Ansible jobs. Experience in using observability products like Grafana and Splunk. Experience in writing Shell / Python scripts.

Qualifications

- 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.
- 10 + years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance and IBM MQ Distributed maintaining huge Distributed Clusters.
- 10+ years of Experience in IBM MQ on different clustering techniques like RHCS, TSAMP, VCS etc.
- 10+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance High Availability Clustering and Data Replication setup across multiple DCs.
- Experience on IBM MQ on zLinux, Linux, AIX OS flavors.
- Expertise on Handling the Large-scale migrations from MQ on On-prem/Cloud to MQ Hardware Appliance.
- Expertise in handling the MQ hardware Appliance support, High Availability Clustering, Backup/Restore Procedures.
- Design and establish procedures to build Appliances on Multi DC with replication and define an end‑to‑end automation strategy (tooling, ownership, and delivery timelines).
- Advise on MQ Hardware Appliance with capacity modelling and appliance sizing guidance to enable accurate footprint and cost planning.
- Help build/mature the MQ Hardware Appliance in terms of monitoring and alerting solution, including baseline thresholds and automated alerts, as a Day‑1 operational requirement.
- Define and enforce a formal operational readiness framework on MQ Hardware Appliance encompassing security, compliance, access control, monitoring, observability, architecture, and support models before any production onboarding.
- Ability to interact with all levels of an organization, including leadership.
- Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Provide assistance in Problem determination and resolution at L2/L3 level.
- Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented at Enterprise level.
- Performing DR/BCP tests, retro on the activities and maintaining BCP documents.
- Experience working with Vendors on Product Troubleshooting.
- Establishing and documenting production run books and guidelines for Admin and Support operations.
- Creating, configuring, and maintaining MQ Objects like Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, Topics.
- Job Expectations: Hands-on experience at scale on Middleware (IBM MQ- [Appliance, x86 & zLinux], IBM Message Broker, KAFKA, Solace) Administration performing activities build, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting, deploys, configuring, patching and compliance.
- Experience in configuring HA clusters like RHCS / Veritas /TSAMP and Multi Instance MQ qmgrs and troubleshooting issues involving HA clusters.
- Experience on IBM MQ on zOS, zLinux, Linux, AIX.
- Good understanding of MQ monitoring tools like IR360.
- Hands on experience on IBM API Connect and manage WMB topology, ACE upgrades.
- Experience with Kafka Connect worker and conne

Responsibilities

- Lead complex initiatives to develop infrastructure to provide solutions for business applications.
- Participate in various projects intended to continually improve or upgrade the infrastructure.
- Evaluate internal and external software solutions which could be leveraged to meet target state architecture goals.
- Review and analyze high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid problems in the future.
- Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure solutions through collaborative efforts with the team and third party vendors.
- Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices.
- Make decisions in technical designs, implementation plans and identify project risks and resource requirements.
- Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success.
- Recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and achieve results.
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
- Interact with customer and vendor.

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