Principal DevOps Engineer

Wells Fargo

Principal DevOps Engineer responsible for accelerating software building, shipping, and operating at Wells Fargo. Focused on platform engineering and reliability engineering with a hands-on approach.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeCharlotte • Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $159,000 - $305,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesOpenShiftSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build platform capabilities as products: APIs, controllers, operators, and Infrastructure as Code providers that enable self‑service infrastructure, secure defaults, and golden paths.
Advance reliability engineering across SDLC: define SLOs/error budgets, design for graceful degradation and resiliency, and embed observability through standardized libraries and templates.
Lead architecture and strategy and author RFCs/tech designs, drive decisions on platform boundaries, SLAs, tenancy, multi‑region readiness, and dependency risk.
Elevate developer experience: collaborate with our Chief Development Office to extend and integrate developer portals with catalogs, scorecards, templates, and paved‑road CI/CD that make the right path the easy path.
Implement modern delivery: GitOps workflows, artifact/image pipelines, immutable infrastructure patterns, and progressive delivery practices.
Collaborate across the enterprise: influence standards, align with security/compliance guardrails, and partner with SRE, Cloud, and App teams to remove friction and deliver measurable reliability and time‑to‑value gains.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years writing production code for platforms, services, or automation
5+ years of experience with capacity management, performance tuning, or performance optimization
3+ years experience with Infrastructure as Code at scale
3+ years of experience with cloud and/or hybrid cloud including hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift: packaging, platform abstractions, cluster-level automation, admission controls, and secure multi-tenancy patterns
3+ years experience with GitOps delivery CI/CD design, environment promotion strategies, and policy-as-code integration
3+ years experience with Observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting with SLOs and error budgets.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

APIsInfrastructure as CodeGitOpsKubernetesOpenShiftperformance tuningobservabilityproduction codecapacity managementprogressive delivery

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipinfluencecommunicationstrategydecision makingproblem solvingorganizational skillsdeveloper experience enhancementcross-functional teamwork