Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Technology Director

About This Role

Wells Fargo is seeking a Engineering Manager. This is a critical leadership role responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, and security of the company's core infrastructure while leading a high performing engineering team. This role exists to provide strategic direction, operational excellence, and engineering leadership across all infrastructure platforms as the organization grows in scale and complexity. Beyond technical stewardship, the role is accountable for improving cross-functional alignment with development, product, and security teams, ensuring infrastructure becomes a scalable enabler of innovation. By setting clear priorities, coaching engineers, and driving modernization initiatives, this Manager ensures the company operates highly reliable systems while accelerating delivery and controlling costs.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4 years of management or leadership experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong programming/scripting experience (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash)
• Deep experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Expertise with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Proven experience in monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
  
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience designing systems for high availability and disaster recovery
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and production environments
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Prior experience leading reliability initiatives or technical projects
• Familiarity with chaos engineering and performance testing tools
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration abilities
• Ownership mindset and operational excellence focus
• Ability to balance reliability with development velocity
• Mentorship and technical leadership capabilities
  
  

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule; qualified candidates must work from office three days per week.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
  
  

Posting End Date:

5 Mar 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.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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

• Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
• Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
  
  

Reference Number

R-523401