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The Role
Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for driving stability, resiliency, performance, and security of enterprise platforms. Define SLIs/SLOs, implement observability and automation, lead incident management and toil reduction, advise leadership, enforce reliability standards, and collaborate across development, product, and operations to ensure high availability and continuous improvement.
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About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the WIMT Platform team. This role is responsible for driving the stability, resiliency, performance, and security of mission-critical platforms that support Wells Fargo Advisors, First Clearing firms, and FINET practices. As a Lead SRE, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across incident management, automation, observability, and reliability engineering, with a strong focus on proactive risk mitigation and continuous improvement. You will help define and enforce reliability standards while partnering closely with Application Development, Product, Business, and Enterprise teams to ensure operational excellence throughout the full-service lifecycle. This role is ideal for a highly motivated engineer with deep experience operating large-scale, production systems who takes ownership, values accountability, and is passionate about building resilient, enterprise-grade platforms. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at https://www.wellsfargojobs.com .
In this role, you will:
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$119,000.00 - $187,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
16 Aug 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
#BI-Hybrid
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the WIMT Platform team. This role is responsible for driving the stability, resiliency, performance, and security of mission-critical platforms that support Wells Fargo Advisors, First Clearing firms, and FINET practices. As a Lead SRE, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across incident management, automation, observability, and reliability engineering, with a strong focus on proactive risk mitigation and continuous improvement. You will help define and enforce reliability standards while partnering closely with Application Development, Product, Business, and Enterprise teams to ensure operational excellence throughout the full-service lifecycle. This role is ideal for a highly motivated engineer with deep experience operating large-scale, production systems who takes ownership, values accountability, and is passionate about building resilient, enterprise-grade platforms. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at https://www.wellsfargojobs.com .
In this role, you will:
- Design and implement scalability, reliability, and observability strategies for cloud and on-premise environments
- Define SLIs (Service Level Indicators), SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and Error Budgets to improve system reliability
- Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions
- Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommend 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
- Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
- Drive adoption of NFRs, best practices-quality and compliance across observability and performance engineering
- Ensure high availability and performance of production systems through proactive monitoring and incident response
- Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
- Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 5+ years of experience leading observability and monitoring tooling - Splunk, AppDynamics, Splunk Observability, Grafana, Open Telemetry
- 5+ years in infrastructure (windows and Linux) support
- 5+ years proven success in toil reduction initiatives
- 5+ years in cloud application management especially OpenShift Container Platform
- 5+ years experience in SRE, public & private cloud technologies, Java performance tuning, capacity optimization for mission critical applications
- Working knowledge of multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, JSON, Angular, NodeJS)
- Hands-on experience with cloud and platform technologies such as AWS, PCF, PKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Azure, Windows, and VMware
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills for effective collaboration across teams
- Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders at various organizational levels
- Expert experience on monitoring tools - Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Glassbox, Splunk
- Advanced experience in one or more scripting languages - Python, Shell scripting etc
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, OCP and troubleshooting skills
- Strong grasp of Java performance concepts (heap, GC) and critical monitoring metrics for Java apps
- Ability to identify manual tasks in the processes and automating them to reduce toil
- Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$119,000.00 - $187,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
16 Aug 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo .
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
#BI-Hybrid
Skills Required
- 5+ years of Software Engineering experience
- 5+ years leading observability and monitoring tooling (Splunk, AppDynamics, Splunk Observability, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- 5+ years in infrastructure support (Windows and Linux)
- 5+ years proven success in toil reduction initiatives
- 5+ years in cloud application management especially OpenShift Container Platform
- Willingness to work on-site at stated location (hybrid work schedule)
- Experience in SRE, public & private cloud technologies, Java performance tuning, capacity optimization for mission critical applications
- Working knowledge of multiple programming languages (Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, JSON, Angular, NodeJS)
- Hands-on experience with cloud and platform technologies (AWS, PCF, PKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Azure, Windows, VMware)
- Expert experience on monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, Glassbox, Splunk)
- Advanced experience in scripting languages (Python, Shell scripting)
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, OCP and troubleshooting skills
- Strong grasp of Java performance concepts (heap, GC) and critical monitoring metrics for Java apps
- Ability to identify manual tasks and automate them to reduce toil
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Wells Fargo Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is anchored by a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match on employee contributions after one year of service, with an additional non‑matching company contribution for some lower‑paid employees. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further expands long‑term savings opportunities.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave available from the first day of employment, plus paid critical‑caregiving leave and extensive backup care options. Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy programs are highlighted with meaningful coverage and reimbursements, including a combined lifetime maximum up to $35,000 for eligible expenses.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is comprehensive from day one, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental health, prescriptions, and preventive care often fully covered in‑network. Employer cost‑sharing is emphasized alongside no‑cost counseling through the EAP within plan limits.
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The Company
What We Do
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $2.2 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 33 on Fortune’s 2025 rankings of America’s largest corporations. Our technology professionals drive innovation, information security, and big data analytics while maintaining a network that handles more than 12 billion customer interactions a year. Join us! Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it — Wells Fargo continues to rank on the LinkedIn Top Companies lists of best workplaces “to grow your career.” All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic. © 2026 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. All rights reserved. Member FDIC.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Typical time on-site:
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