Principal Network Engineer – Reliability

Wells Fargo

Principal Network Engineer driving reliability modernization and improvement for enterprise scale services. Collaborating across networks, cloud, and applications for business-critical operations.

Posted 8/1/2026full-timeIrving • Arizona, North Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in network engineering and reliability engineering, focusing on critical enterprise network services. Proficient in incident response, service health measurement, and implementing continuous improvement practices to enhance operational stability.

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Network EngineeringReliability EngineeringIncident Response LeadershipSLOs/SLIs ImplementationAutomation Scripting

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Hard Skills

RoutingSwitchingTCP/IPBGPOSPFHigh-Availability DesignLoad BalancingNetwork SecurityCapacity PlanningPerformance Analysis

Soft Skills

Clear Communication Under PressureCross-Functional InfluenceMentoring Engineers

Tools & Technologies

PythonPowerShellBashAnsibleTerraform

Industry Keywords

Operational Readiness ReviewsService Health ReportingRoot Cause AnalysisPost-Incident ReviewsChange Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudDNSFirewallsPythonSwitchingTCP/IPTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help shape the reliability strategy for critical network services at enterprise scale
Influence how network reliability is measured, engineered, automated, and continuously improved
Drive modernization, reduce operational risk, and improve the stability of services that support critical business operations
Provide senior technical leadership, hands-on engineering guidance, and cross-functional influence
Define and drive reliability targets, SLOs/SLIs, risk measures, service health indicators, and improvement plans for critical network services
Lead major incident response and service restoration, and drive root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and prevention of repeat incidents
Review, challenge, and guide network designs to improve resiliency, scalability, security, capacity, failure isolation, and operational simplicity
Expand telemetry, alerting, service health reporting, configuration management, automated validation, and self-service capabilities to reduce manual toil
Strengthen standards, runbooks, documentation, change quality, failure readiness, compliance-aligned practices, and production readiness reviews
Partner with network, cloud, security, infrastructure, application, architecture, and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and communicating complex technical issues clearly to senior stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in network engineering, reliability engineering, or network operations supporting business-critical enterprise network services
5+ years of expert knowledge of routing, switching, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, high-availability design, and related network services including load balancing, DNS, NTP, firewalls, and network security
Proven ability to lead complex incident response, guide troubleshooting, restore service, and communicate clearly under pressure
Practical experience applying SRE or reliability engineering practices, including SLOs/SLIs, problem management, service health measurement, operational health metrics, and continuous improvement
Experience improving operational stability and reducing repeat incidents through root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, corrective action planning, systemic remediation, and measurable recurrence prevention
Experience owning corrective actions from post-incident review through implementation, validation, and closure
Experience improving change success rates through risk assessment, peer review, validation testing, rollback planning, and post-change verification
Experience conducting operational readiness reviews, production readiness assessments, failure-mode reviews, or service acceptance reviews
Experience managing vendor escalations, product defects, support cases, and platform lifecycle risks that impact service stability
Experience with capacity planning, performance analysis, traffic engineering, and resiliency planning for large-scale enterprise networks
Hands-on automation or scripting experience with tools such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent technologies
Experience improving monitoring, telemetry, alerting, dashboards, metrics, service health reporting, or performance visibility for critical infrastructure services

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office
Provides senior technical escalation for critical incidents and high-risk changes
Support critical incident response as needed; any recurring on-call rotation will be clearly defined before offer acceptance
5% or less travel expectations