Lead Platform Reliability Engineer

Wells Fargo

Lead Platform Reliability Engineer improving enterprise platform stability at Wells Fargo through SRE practices. Collaborate across technology disciplines to enhance availability and operational excellence.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeIrving • Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $119,000 - $206,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in reliability engineering across technology domains, applying SRE principles to enhance platform health and performance. Proven ability to lead incident resolution, capacity analysis, and automation initiatives while mentoring technical teams on best practices.

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Reliability EngineeringSRE PrinciplesPerformance AnalysisAutomation SolutionsIncident Management

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Hard Skills

Systems EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringPlatform EngineeringNetwork EngineeringMiddleware EngineeringDatabase EngineeringStorage EngineeringCapacity ManagementPerformance OptimizationConfiguration Management

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationCommunicationProblem-SolvingLeadership

Tools & Technologies

WebSphereTomcatKafkaOracleSQL ServerPostgreSQLMongoDBSAN/NAS TechnologiesLoad BalancingDNS

Industry Keywords

Enterprise-Scale ProductionOperational ExcellenceService Level IndicatorsService Level ObjectivesError BudgetsObservabilityOperational DebtPlatform HygieneBlameless Post-Incident ReviewsTechnical Recommendations

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSKafkaMongoDBOraclePostgresSQLSwitching

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as the reliability engineering expert for your primary domain (Network, Middleware, Database, or Storage) while partnering across adjacent technology disciplines
Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production incidents, identifying root causes and implementing long-term corrective actions
Apply SRE principles including service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and reliability engineering practices to improve platform health
Lead capacity analysis, forecasting, and utilization reviews to identify future scaling risks and prevent service degradation before customer impact occurs
Perform deep performance analysis across infrastructure layers, identifying bottlenecks, contention points, latency drivers, and resource inefficiencies
Identify and remediate configuration drift, operational debt, and platform hygiene issues that impact long-term reliability
Drive proactive reliability improvements through observability, automation, performance optimization, and resiliency engineering
Design and implement automation solutions that eliminate operational toil, reduce manual intervention, and improve recovery capabilities
Define and enhance enterprise observability standards through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and service health monitoring
Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, application, cloud, and operations teams to improve platform performance and availability
Lead blameless post-incident reviews and convert recurring operational issues into measurable engineering improvements
Identify reliability risks and communicate technical recommendations to engineering leaders and senior stakeholders
Mentor engineers and technical teams on reliability engineering, operational excellence, automation, and platform best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, Technology Architecture, or equivalent experience demonstrated through work experience, military experience, training, or education
5+ years supporting and engineering enterprise-scale production environments
5+ years of experience with hands-on expertise in one of the following technology domains: Network Engineering (routing, switching, load balancing, DNS, network observability, performance analysis) Middleware Engineering (WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Kafka, MQ, application platforms, integration technologies) Database Engineering (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, database performance, replication, HA/DR) Storage Engineering (SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, backup/recovery, performance and capacity management)

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