Principal SRE Platform Engineer

Wells Fargo•Columbus, OH

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Core Banking Group within Consumer Technology. The principal engineer must be able to perform gap analysis of the application and also implement alerting, alarming observability. The principal engineer will adopt an SRE organization through Observability, Automation and Cloud Engineering for Branch. The principal engineer must have strong communication skills and the ability to mentor, provide expert advice and upskill the platform engineers. The principal engineer will be called to production outage calls and be expected to reduce the mean time to resolve by providing senior level troubleshooting skills.

Requirements

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
7+ years of alarm scripting or alerting tool experience
6+ years of experience with Observability (logging, monitoring, and event detection) on cloud or distributed platforms (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Kafka, Airflow, Logstash, Grafana, Elastic APM, Jaeger, Zipkin for Distributed Tracing)
4+ years of Hosting Platforms experience (AWS, OCP, Kubernetes, PKS, Azure)
3+ years of experience setting up distributed tracing across an internet topology for full health check and with the ability to pinpoint problem source

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of the network stack, operating system stack and middleware to be utilized for troubleshooting production incidents
Deep experience leading the design and implementation of enterprise‑grade security, including mTLS, identity, and secrets management, across Apigee API Gateway, network load balancers, and distributed application platforms.
Experience with hands on development of splunk dashboards
Experienced troubleshooting Unix, Linux and cloud environments
Experience with Log analysis
Strong communication with the ability to communicate on all levels of the organization
Demonstrate knowledge/understanding of emerging technologies, industry trends, and outside perspectives, and communicate relevance to the organizations strategic and tactical goals

Responsibilities

Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence 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 and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking
Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions
Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization
Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership
Lead proof of concepts and prototyping
Write and present white papers and present in industry conferences
Lead execution of critical/complex project deliverables
Experience with mentorship by training, documenting, certifying and building the teams skill set
Ability to dynamically engage and attend high impact production incidents and troubleshoot to resolution and provide immediate incident analysis both written and spoken