Lead Information Security Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title:

Lead Information Security Site Reliability Engineer

Wells Fargo is back in the office collaborating for fabulous outcomes!

This role is in the office three days a week and work from home two days a week.

There is no visa sponsorship or visa transfers.

About this Role:

We are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead a team of SRE engineers to help mature our platform operations across Windows, Linux, and cloud-native environments. This role is central to our transformation from app-specific support to platform-wide reliability engineering. You will bring deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) container orchestration, and automation, enabling scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure that supports diverse applications across our enterprise. 

Key Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Cloud Engineering

- Ensure high availability, performance, and security of production systems across Windows, Linux, and GCP environments.- Engineer and support containerized workloads using Kubernetes (GKE) and Docker, enabling scalable microservices architectures.- Lead infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and GCP-native tools.

Automation & Observability

- Develop automation scripts and pipelines to eliminate manual toil and accelerate incident response.- Implement observability frameworks using SLIs/SLOs, Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Operations Suite.- Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, and telemetry across hybrid environments.

Incident Management & Resilience

- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.- Build self-healing systems and automated remediation workflows using GCP-native services and scripting.

Security & Compliance

- Collaborate with InfoSec to enforce hardening standards, manage vulnerabilities, and support compliance initiatives.- Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and container platforms using IAM, encryption, and policy enforcement.

Collaboration & Enablement

- Partner with developers, application owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, cloud-native platforms.- Document configurations, runbooks, and operational procedures to enable cross-team use and transparency.

In this role, you will:

• Lead computer security incident response activities for highly complex events
• Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies
• Provide security consulting on large projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards
• Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for highly complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security
• Review and correlate security logs
• Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity
• Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including managers
• Lead a team to achieve objectives

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 
• 1 + year leading a team or body of work with demonstrated success

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong experience with GCP services, including GKE, IAM, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Experience with cyber application support
• Strong automation experience designing cutting edge solutions to reduce Toil and maximize efficiency.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Shell.
• Strong experience with observability tools like Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Big Panda, etc. 
• Proficiency in container technologies: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with executive leadership to outline strategic direction for the team.
• Familiarity with Linux and Windows system administration and hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, Ansible.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Windows security principles.
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, Security+, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI and Jenkins).
• Familiarity with ITIL practices and change management.
• Exposure to ServiceNow, load balancers, certificate management, and endpoint protection tools.
• Financial Services or highly regulated industry experience. 
• Expert communicator with the ability to speak and present to executives on a broad range of subjects.

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 unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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