Lead Software Engineer SRE

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 missioncritical platforms that support Wells Fargo Advisors First Clearing firms and FINET practices. As a Lead SRE you will provide handson 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 largescale production systems who takes ownership values accountability and is passionate about building resilient enterprisegrade platforms. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at .

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

Required Qualifications:

• 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

Desired Qualifications:

• 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

Job Expectations:

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

Posting End Date:

*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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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