Principal Engineer – EFT Platform Services, Cloud & Infrastructure

Wells Fargo & Company • Raleigh, NC

2d • 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. Its applications and tools are continually engineered to meet needs for stability, security, scalability, and speed.

Within Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering, the Cloud Enablement team accelerates cloud adoption across the EFT portfolio through consulting, solution design, engineering support, and reusable enablement assets. The team designs, builds, and optimizes cloud infrastructure and develops tools, training, documentation, and best practices so developers can build, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications. Through standardization, automation, and knowledge sharing, it supports a “you build it, you run it” operating model and reduces friction for application teams.

The Principal Engineer will lead complex cloud modernization and platform engineering initiatives, provide technical expertise across public cloud, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automation, and advance operational excellence using AI-enabled and agentic solutions. The role guides cloud adoption through architecture advice, reusable patterns, process alignment, and automation strategy. It also provides hands-on technical leadership, breaks complex work into actionable stories for contractors and junior team members, and mentors those team members. The position is suited to an engineering leader experienced with infrastructure across virtual machines, containers, AWS, Azure, and GCP who is motivated to remove barriers through automation and practical, developer-focused solutions.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• At least 5 years of experience integrating container and cloud workflows with CI/CD.
• At least 3 years of platform engineering experience on GCP, Azure, and/or AWS.
• At least 3 years of experience designing, coding, and supporting cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
• At least 3 years of experience designing and coding Ansible roles.
• At least 1 year of experience designing, deploying, and supporting a scalable application on Kubernetes.
• At least 1 year of experience with Podman/Docker, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, and/or GKS.
• At least 1 year of experience with VM Linux and Windows virtualization.

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/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 across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to identify manual processes and implement automation that improves 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 to guide cloud adoption.
• Provide technical leadership and practical execution to enable scalable delivery.
• Decompose complex features into actionable stories for contractors and junior team members.
• Mentor contractors and junior team members.

What This Job Offers

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