Middleware & Messaging Operations: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Middleware & Messaging Operations team In this role, you will: Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements Drive solutions to reduce recovery Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices Design complex system upgrades Resolve troublesome trends as they develop Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals Required Qualifications: 4+ 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 Required Qualifications for Europe, Middle East & Africa only: Experience in Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, education Desired Qualifications: 4+ years of Experience on IBM MQ Hardware Appliance and IBM MQ Distributed maintaining huge Distributed Clusters 4+ years of Experience in IBM MQ on different clustering techniques like RHCS, TSAMP, VCS etc. 4+ 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. Strong team or technical leadership experience Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. 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: 4+ 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. 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