Principal Engineer Infrastructure Engineer – Telemetry

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Telemetry to provide enterprise-level technical leadership across applications, APIs, platforms, cloud, and infrastructure.

This role will define the technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards for telemetry capabilities that provide meaningful insight into technology performance, health, capacity, utilization, and operational trends.

The engineer will establish scalable and reusable patterns for metrics, events, logs, traces, synthetics, dashboards, alerting, and instrumentation while helping engineering teams turn technical data into actionable information.

The role works across application, platform, infrastructure, OpenShift/Kubernetes, DevOps, and modernization teams and will serve as a senior technical authority, influencing engineering direction, architectural decisions, and adoption of enterprise telemetry capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Define the technical strategy and architecture for telemetry capabilities across applications, APIs, platforms, cloud, and infrastructure.
• Establish enterprise engineering standards and reusable patterns for metrics, events, logs, traces, synthetics, instrumentation, dashboards, and alerting.
• Architect and guide implementation of telemetry solutions using Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and related technologies.
• Define approaches for dashboards and reporting that provide actionable insights for engineering teams and technology leadership.
• Influence engineering organizations to adopt consistent telemetry, instrumentation, and integration patterns.
• Establish approaches for correlating telemetry across applications, containers, infrastructure, networking, storage, APIs, and dependent services.
• Drive automation of telemetry collection, instrumentation, dashboards, reporting, and integrations to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Provide technical direction for complex, cross-platform telemetry designs, integrations, and engineering challenges.
• Define meaningful technology KPIs for performance, capacity, utilization, adoption, and operational health.
• Serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor, mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards, architectural decisions, and technology direction across teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Telemetry Engineering, Monitoring Engineering, or related experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years of experience with telemetry or monitoring technologies such as Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Elastic, or comparable technologies.
• 5+ years of experience designing or implementing dashboards, metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, instrumentation, or telemetry integrations.

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced experience with Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or related telemetry technologies.

• Experience providing technical leadership for complex enterprise infrastructure, platform, or software engineering solutions.

• Experience defining enterprise standards and architecture for Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces, and Synthetics (MELTS).
• Experience designing telemetry pipelines, automated instrumentation, or telemetry-as-code capabilities.
• Experience developing technical and leadership dashboards using multiple enterprise data sources.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, ARO, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, applications, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Experience influencing technical strategy and architecture across multiple engineering teams or technology domains.
• Experience delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions within a regulated environment.

Job Expectations

• There is no Visa sponsorship available for this role
• There is no relocation allowance for this position.
• This position requires working in a hybrid environment from one of the posted locations

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.

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