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 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.

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
• Able 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: 30 Aug 2026
• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants