Principal DevOps Engineer

About this Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to accelerate how Consumer Technology builds, ships, and operates software at enterprise scale. You'll be a handson engineer who pairs deep software engineering skill with platform thinking—designing APIs, applications, playbooks, and providers that power our Internal Developer Platform and reliability toolchain. Your focus will span Platform Engineering (infrastructure as code, developer portals, service templates, GitOps) and Reliability Engineering (SLOs/error budgets, resilient architectures, observability) with room to lean into your strength area.

In this role, you will:

• 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, multiregion 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 handson Kubernetes/OpenShift: packaging, platform abstractions, cluster‑level automation, admission controls, and secure multitenancy 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.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience extending developer portals and building service templates
• Experience with Crossplane and custom providers/operators is highly valued.
• Building secure, compliant platforms: guardrails, golden images, image supply chains and runtime controls.
• Distributed systems and reliability patterns experience
• Experience with service mesh and API management patterns.
• Experience contributing to inner source codebases or shared engineering libraries
• Financial services or other regulated enterprise experience.

Job Expectations

• Ability to travel up to 20% for key events and teamwork as needed.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$159,000.00 - $305,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• 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

Posting End Date

10 Apr 2026

• 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.

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug‑free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements

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b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.