Principal Engineer – EFT Platform Services, Cloud & Infrastructure

Wells Fargo Bank • Raleigh, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT) group provides technology solutions and support for business lines including Risk, Audit, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Properties, and Stakeholder Relations, as well as Wells Fargo Technology, Enterprise Shared Services, and Enterprise Data Management. The Cloud Enablement team within Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering supports cloud adoption across the EFT portfolio through consulting, solution design, engineering support, and reusable enablement assets. It designs, builds, and optimizes cloud infrastructure and develops tools, training, documentation, and best practices to help developers build, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications. The team uses standardization, automation, and knowledge sharing to support a “you build it, you run it” operating model and reduce friction for application teams.

The Principal Engineer will lead complex cloud modernization and platform engineering initiatives from strategy through execution, providing expertise in public cloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automation. The role drives modernization, innovation, and operational excellence using AI-enabled and agentic solutions; advises on architecture, reusable solution patterns, cross-functional process alignment, and automation strategy; and enables scalable delivery through technical leadership and hands-on execution. The engineer will also break complex features into actionable stories for contractors and junior team members and mentor those colleagues. This role suits a hands-on engineering leader familiar with infrastructure across virtual machines, containers, AWS, Azure, and GCP, and focused on removing barriers with scalable automation and practical, developer-focused solutions.

The position must be located in a listed location on the job requisition and requires at least three days per week in the office. Wells Fargo emphasizes risk mitigation, compliance, proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, and sound risk decisions. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides disability accommodations upon request.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years of experience integrating container and cloud workflows with CI/CD.
• 3+ years of platform engineering experience on GCP, Azure, and/or AWS.
• 3+ years of experience designing, coding, and supporting cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
• 3+ years of experience designing and coding Ansible roles.
• 1+ years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting scale applications on Kubernetes.
• 1+ years of experience with Podman/Docker, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, and/or GKS.
• 1+ years of experience with VM Linux and Windows virtualization.
• Position must be located in a listed location on the job requisition.
• Minimum three days per week in the office.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and context engineering, including MLOps and LLMOps frameworks for observability, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop interactions.
• Experience designing APIs such as REST or GraphQL, including data contracts, authentication and authorization, and error handling.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management, remediation, patch management, SSL certificates, PKI, or compliance processes, and tools such as Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, SCCM/MECM, WSUS, or Red Hat Satellite.
• Financial services industry experience.
• Ability to influence and build trust across organizational boundaries, with strong executive presence.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to identify manual processes and implement automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.
• Certification(s) in Cloud Computing, Platform Engineering, or another relevant area.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cloud modernization and platform engineering initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Provide expertise in public cloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automation across the EFT portfolio.
• Drive modernization, innovation, and operational excellence with AI-enabled and agentic solutions.
• Advise on architecture, reusable solution patterns, cross-functional process alignment, and automation strategy.
• Enable scalable delivery through technical leadership and practical execution.
• Decompose complex features into actionable stories for contractors and junior team members.
• Mentor contractors and junior team members.
• Support risk and compliance obligations, including proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, and sound risk decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed