Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Solace Messaging Operations

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer.

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

• 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

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience managing large-scale Middleware environments, including Solace appliances or Brokers.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Solace PubSub+ appliances.
• Expertise in handling larger Application Migrations on Solace Appliances.
• Expertise in firmware upgrades, patching, and maintenance lifecycle.
• Solid experience with TLS/SSL certificate management (CSR creation, renewal, rotation, trust store updates).
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware alerts, including Fan/temperature, Disk/SSD, NIC and redundancy issues, HA failovers.
• Experience coordinating vendor support (Solace TAC) including RMA, part replacement, and RCA.
• Strong operational knowledge of VPN creation, Queue / Topic Endpoint creation, ACL profiles, client profiles, quotas.
• Skills in performance tuning/window tuning for high throughput and low latency.
• Experience using CLI, SolAdmin, SEMP API, and monitoring dashboards.
• Strong L3 troubleshooting skills for production platforms.
• Understanding of HA/DR architecture in Solace.
• Knowledge of replay, transaction settings, and advanced Solace features.
• Experience implementing DMR (Dynamic Message Routing) or event mesh.
• Automation/scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible).
• Experience with other messaging platforms (Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ).
• Cloud exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP) with Solace PubSub+ Cloud.
• 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).
• Solace certification (SSC or architecture).
• 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.
• Job location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Reference Number

R-525860