Principal Security Engineer - Reliability
Wells Fargo3 days ago
Charlotte, NC, USA or Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$159k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive reliability, security posture, policy governance, service health indicators, risk measures, and improvement plans for enterprise security platforms.
- Guide engineering decisions for proxy, firewall, NAC, WAF, secure access, and segmentation platforms.
- Strengthen firewall rules, proxy policies, NAC/WAF controls, segmentation models, exception handling, certification practices, and compliance-aligned controls.
- Lead major incident response, service restoration, root cause analysis, and recurrence-prevention efforts for security product incidents.
- Expand telemetry, alerting, service health reporting, policy validation, configuration management, automated testing, and self-service capabilities.
- Review and guide architectures for security effectiveness, failure isolation, availability, inspection performance, and operational readiness.
- Partner across cybersecurity, network, cloud, infrastructure, application, architecture, risk, and compliance teams while mentoring engineers and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Manage corrective actions, change-risk improvements, operational readiness reviews, vendor escalations, product defects, support cases, and platform lifecycle risks.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in network security, network engineering, or security infrastructure supporting business-critical enterprise network services.
- At least 5 years of expert experience with network security platforms such as firewalls, proxy, NAC, WAF, ZTNA, segmentation, and secure access.
- At least 5 years of experience with TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, and application-layer protocols.
- At least 5 years of experience applying reliability or SRE practices to infrastructure or security platforms, including service health measurement, problem management, and continuous improvement.
- At least 5 years of experience improving operational stability, reducing repeat incidents, owning corrective actions, improving change success rates, and conducting operational readiness or service acceptance reviews.
- At least 5 years of experience with vendor escalations, security control effectiveness, audit readiness, exception governance, policy compliance, monitoring, telemetry, logging, and service health visibility.
- At least 5 years of hands-on automation or scripting experience with Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, or equivalent technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise network security architecture and standards experience, relevant certifications such as PCNSE, CCNP Security, Fortinet NSE, CISSP, AWS/Azure security, or ITIL, and experience with regulated or critical industries.
- Preferred experience includes firewall rule lifecycle management, policy hygiene, segmentation, least-privilege models, WAF tuning, NAC and identity integration, zero trust access, SASE/ZTNA transformation, packet captures, and security logs or telemetry.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with three days per week in the office and two days remote in the Dallas, Charlotte, or Chandler metro areas.
- Travel expectation of 5% or less; recurring on-call expectations will be defined before offer acceptance.
- Health benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, disability benefits, life insurance, critical illness and accident insurance, parental leave, and critical caregiving leave.
- Commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, dependent-child scholarships, adoption reimbursement, and discounts and savings.
- Eligible employees may receive incentive opportunities in addition to the stated base pay range.
About Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is a U.S.-based financial services firm providing consumer and commercial banking, mortgages, credit, and wealth/investment services to individuals, small businesses, and enterprises. It earns revenue from interest income and fees across retail banking, payments, lending, and capital markets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (WFC) and operates nationally with offices in multiple countries.