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About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead Systems Operations Engineer to provide technical leadership across Platform Engineering and Production Support within Consumer Technology. This role is responsible for advancing the observability, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence of critical branch facing platforms, including the Customer Relationship View (CRV) ecosystem, which spans Salesforce, Java/J2EE, APIs, and modern container-based technologies. The ideal candidate will bring deep, hands-on expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, application and production support, DevOps, complex troubleshooting, automation, and AI-enabled operations.
Key areas of focus include:
- Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex production issues by correlating application behavior, logs, metrics, infrastructure signals, system dependencies, and customer/business impact, while driving coordinated technical recovery across multiple engineering teams
- Advance a proactive, engineering-led approach to production support by strengthening monitoring, alerting, application telemetry, automated diagnostics, resiliency, performance management, and incident prevention
- Identify and implement AI and automation solutions that reduce manual operational effort, accelerate issue detection and root-cause analysis, improve engineering productivity, and reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR)
- Apply strong hands-on technical expertise across technologies and observability platforms including Salesforce, Java/J2EE, Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, and Playwright
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor and partner across application development, infrastructure, architecture, cybersecurity, vendors, and business teams to strengthen platform stability, production readiness, change execution, and engineering practices
- Apply AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation to operational use cases such as incident correlation, anomaly detection, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, knowledge discovery, and platform engineering productivity
In this role, you will:
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, shaping and influencing platform engineering, production support, reliability, and operational strategies for highly complex business and technology initiatives
- Lead complex, enterprise-impacting technology initiatives and provide senior-level engineering consultation across applications, platforms, infrastructure, observability, and production operations
- Lead the technical strategy and resolution of complex and unique production challenges requiring cross-functional analysis, sound engineering judgment, and long-term, scalable solutions
- Translate deep technical expertise, business priorities, enterprise technology strategy, and operational requirements into reliable, resilient, observable, and scalable engineering solutions
- Provide technical vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership while driving adoption of SRE, DevOps, automation, AI, and modern observability practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices and apply innovations that improve availability, resiliency, operational efficiency, troubleshooting effectiveness, and engineering productivity
- Strategically engage with engineers, architects, product teams, business partners, vendors, and senior leaders across the enterprise, serving as a technical escalation point and trusted advisor
- Mentor and develop engineers, strengthen technical capabilities, and establish engineering standards and practices that improve team effectiveness and delivery
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of systems engineering and technology architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices, including observability, monitoring, automation, incident management, resiliency, availability, and reliability engineering
- Strong hands-on technical experience supporting Salesforce, Java/J2EE applications, APIs, and Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes-based platforms in complex enterprise production environments
- Deep hands-on expertise with observability and monitoring technologies such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, dashboards, alerting, log analytics, application telemetry, synthetic monitoring, and performance monitoring
- 5+ years of Salesforce administration experience, Salesforce Administrator certification, or equivalent hands-on Salesforce platform experience
- Demonstrated experience leading high-severity production incidents, troubleshooting complex distributed applications and infrastructure dependencies, performing root-cause analysis, and coordinating technical recovery across multiple engineering teams
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities, with demonstrated ability to correlate logs, metrics, traces, application behavior, infrastructure signals, system dependencies, and customer/business impact to quickly isolate and resolve production issues
- Experience designing and implementing automation that eliminates repetitive operational activities, strengthens production controls, improves reliability, and reduces MTTD and MTTR
- Experience applying AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation to operational use cases such as incident correlation, anomaly detection, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, knowledge discovery, and engineering productivity
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to provide clear technical direction and coordinate multiple stakeholders during business-critical and high-pressure production events
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement across production support, SRE, observability, automation, and platform reliability
Job Expectations:
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. $159,000.00 - $279,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- 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
Posting End Date:
15 Nov 2026- 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.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
c. Please be prepared to provide accurate information and supporting documentation in connection with any lawful employment and education verification conducted by Wells Fargo.
About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a highly experienced Senior Lead Systems Operations Engineer to provide technical leadership across Platform Engineering and Production Support within Consumer Technology. This role is responsible for advancing the observability, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence of critical branch facing platforms, including the Customer Relationship View (CRV) ecosystem, which spans Salesforce, Java/J2EE, APIs, and modern container-based technologies. The ideal candidate will bring deep, hands-on expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability, application and production support, DevOps, complex troubleshooting, automation, and AI-enabled operations.
Key areas of focus include:
- Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex production issues by correlating application behavior, logs, metrics, infrastructure signals, system dependencies, and customer/business impact, while driving coordinated technical recovery across multiple engineering teams
- Advance a proactive, engineering-led approach to production support by strengthening monitoring, alerting, application telemetry, automated diagnostics, resiliency, performance management, and incident prevention
- Identify and implement AI and automation solutions that reduce manual operational effort, accelerate issue detection and root-cause analysis, improve engineering productivity, and reduce Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR)
- Apply strong hands-on technical expertise across technologies and observability platforms including Salesforce, Java/J2EE, Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, and Playwright
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor and partner across application development, infrastructure, architecture, cybersecurity, vendors, and business teams to strengthen platform stability, production readiness, change execution, and engineering practices
- Apply AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation to operational use cases such as incident correlation, anomaly detection, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, knowledge discovery, and platform engineering productivity
In this role, you will:
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, shaping and influencing platform engineering, production support, reliability, and operational strategies for highly complex business and technology initiatives
- Lead complex, enterprise-impacting technology initiatives and provide senior-level engineering consultation across applications, platforms, infrastructure, observability, and production operations
- Lead the technical strategy and resolution of complex and unique production challenges requiring cross-functional analysis, sound engineering judgment, and long-term, scalable solutions
- Translate deep technical expertise, business priorities, enterprise technology strategy, and operational requirements into reliable, resilient, observable, and scalable engineering solutions
- Provide technical vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership while driving adoption of SRE, DevOps, automation, AI, and modern observability practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices and apply innovations that improve availability, resiliency, operational efficiency, troubleshooting effectiveness, and engineering productivity
- Strategically engage with engineers, architects, product teams, business partners, vendors, and senior leaders across the enterprise, serving as a technical escalation point and trusted advisor
- Mentor and develop engineers, strengthen technical capabilities, and establish engineering standards and practices that improve team effectiveness and delivery
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of systems engineering and technology architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices, including observability, monitoring, automation, incident management, resiliency, availability, and reliability engineering
- Strong hands-on technical experience supporting Salesforce, Java/J2EE applications, APIs, and Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes-based platforms in complex enterprise production environments
- Deep hands-on expertise with observability and monitoring technologies such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes, dashboards, alerting, log analytics, application telemetry, synthetic monitoring, and performance monitoring
- 5+ years of Salesforce administration experience, Salesforce Administrator certification, or equivalent hands-on Salesforce platform experience
- Demonstrated experience leading high-severity production incidents, troubleshooting complex distributed applications and infrastructure dependencies, performing root-cause analysis, and coordinating technical recovery across multiple engineering teams
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities, with demonstrated ability to correlate logs, metrics, traces, application behavior, infrastructure signals, system dependencies, and customer/business impact to quickly isolate and resolve production issues
- Experience designing and implementing automation that eliminates repetitive operational activities, strengthens production controls, improves reliability, and reduces MTTD and MTTR
- Experience applying AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation to operational use cases such as incident correlation, anomaly detection, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, knowledge discovery, and engineering productivity
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to provide clear technical direction and coordinate multiple stakeholders during business-critical and high-pressure production events
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement across production support, SRE, observability, automation, and platform reliability
Job Expectations:
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. $159,000.00 - $279,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- 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
Posting End Date:
15 Nov 2026- 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.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
c. Please be prepared to provide accurate information and supporting documentation in connection with any lawful employment and education verification conducted by Wells Fargo.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in lead operations engineer jobs.
- Five or more years of operations or process engineering experience in a relevant industry
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams or managing direct reports
- Proficiency with Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies
- Experience with ERP or operations management systems such as SAP or Oracle
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical field
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred by most employers
Tips for Your Lead Operations Engineer Job Search
Quantify your process improvement outcomes
Lead operations engineer resumes that land interviews consistently show measurable results: uptime improvements, cost reductions, cycle time cuts. Replace vague descriptions of responsibilities with outcomes your process changes actually delivered at a system or facility level.
Align your resume to the operational scope
Job postings for this role vary widely, from single-site operations to multi-site or enterprise-level oversight. Tailor your resume to match the scope in each posting, so hiring managers immediately see you've operated at the right scale.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists lead operations engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by operational methodology
Many postings specify Lean, Six Sigma, or Agile operations environments. Search using those terms alongside the job title so your applications land in environments where your specific methodology experience is directly relevant.
Prepare a cross-functional leadership example
Interviewers for lead-level operations roles consistently probe for evidence of leading without direct authority. Have a ready example of a time you drove an operational change by aligning engineering, logistics, or finance teams around a shared outcome.
Negotiate scope before negotiating anything else
Before discussing compensation, clarify the operational footprint you'll own: headcount, budget authority, site count, and reporting structure. Those factors determine your leverage and your growth ceiling far more than the opening offer.
Lead Operations Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most lead operations engineers?
The companies hiring the most lead operations engineers right now include Paylocity, Braze, and JPMorganChase, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in manufacturing, energy, and large-scale logistics operations.
How many lead operations engineer jobs are remote?
About 56% of lead operations engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most operations roles. Sub-disciplines with the highest remote share tend to be systems reliability, supply chain analytics, and operations program management, where on-site presence is less critical than in plant or facility-based roles.
How do you become a lead operations engineer?
Start with a technical degree in engineering or a related field, then build several years of hands-on operations experience where you own measurable outcomes. Earn a Lean or Six Sigma certification to formalize your process improvement credentials. Take on cross-functional projects that require you to lead without direct authority, since most hiring managers treat that experience as the clearest signal of lead-level readiness.
Can you get a lead operations engineer job with limited experience?
Getting hired as a lead operations engineer with limited experience requires demonstrating impact above your current title. Document any process changes you owned end-to-end, even informally, and get a Lean or Six Sigma certification to signal methodological fluency. Targeting smaller companies or high-growth operations environments where the lead role is newly created gives you a realistic path in before the role gets competitive.
What does the lead operations engineer interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on scope of past operations experience, followed by a technical panel where you walk through a process improvement project in detail. A case study or take-home exercise presenting an operational problem is common at mid-stage. Final rounds usually include a cross-functional panel with stakeholders from finance, supply chain, or plant management to assess how you lead across organizational boundaries.
Where can I find and apply to lead operations engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to lead operations engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and operational scope, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience.
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