Principal Engineer, Platform, Cloud Engineering and DevOps

Wells Fargo•Irving, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as the senior technical leader responsible for the strategy, architecture, and evolution of enterprise cloud platforms, infrastructure SRE, Kubernetes/OpenShift, observability, and platform reliability. The role promotes reliability-first and automation-first practices to improve resiliency, scalability, operational excellence, and engineering efficiency through standardized platforms, self-service capabilities, and cloud-native engineering practices. Working with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security partners, the Principal Engineer influences enterprise technology strategy, platform modernization, and reliability initiatives and establishes engineering standards for cloud infrastructure, platform security, and container platforms. The role also advises leadership, champions innovation, mentors senior engineers, and drives continuous improvement across the organization's cloud and platform engineering ecosystem. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and requires the ability to work on-site at one of the listed locations: Charlotte, North Carolina, or Irving, Texas. Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are not available. Employees are accountable for applicable risk and compliance programs, policies, procedures, issue escalation and remediation, and sound risk decisions.

Requirements

7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination of these.
7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
5+ years of experience designing and implementing CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and engineering automation solutions.
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable container platforms.
5+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale platform modernization or cloud transformation initiatives.
3+ years of experience defining engineering standards, architecture patterns, or platform strategies.
3+ years of experience with software delivery, automation, security, and operational resiliency practices.
3+ years of demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive engineering outcomes across large organizations.
Must be able to work on-site at one of the listed locations.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Progressive experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related disciplines in large-scale enterprise environments.
Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, observability, resiliency engineering, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
Experience establishing enterprise standards and governance for platform operations, security, evergreen technology management, and engineering best practices across multiple organizations.
Expertise in observability and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar enterprise solutions.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, architects, and engineering organizations through technical leadership, strategic vision, and execution excellence.
Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills, including the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value.
Industry certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Red Hat OpenShift, AWS/Azure/GCP cloud platform certifications, SRE certifications, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Advise leadership on applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups.
Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering long-term, large-scale solutions requiring vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
Translate advanced technology experience, business objectives, the enterprise technology environment, organizational structure, and strategic technology opportunities and requirements into engineering solutions.
Provide leadership with vision, direction, and expertise on implementing innovative and significant business solutions.
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend innovations that improve operations or provide competitive advantage.
Engage strategically with professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership.
Influence enterprise technology strategy, platform modernization, and reliability initiatives in collaboration with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and security partners.
Establish engineering standards for cloud infrastructure, platform security, and container platforms.
Champion innovation, mentor senior engineers, and drive continuous improvement across the cloud and platform engineering ecosystem.
Fulfill applicable risk and compliance obligations, follow Wells Fargo policies and procedures, and proactively monitor, identify, escalate, and remediate issues.