Senior Platform Reliability Engineer
Today• St. Louis, MO
Senior Platform Reliability Engineer
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer to support critical applications within the Wealth and Investment Management Technology organization. This role plays a key part in ensuring the stability, recoverability, and performance of high-volume, high-priority trading platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, thrive in high-pressure environments, and collaborate closely with development teams and business stakeholders to maintain seamless application operations.
In this role, you will:
- Serve as the first line of triage for application issues, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal downtime
- Partner with development teams to support deployments and internalize vendor applications
- Monitor and maintain the health of trading platforms, ensuring real-time recoverability
- Collaborate with business and technology teams to understand application impact and prioritize response
- Contribute to platform improvements by identifying recurring issues and driving process enhancements
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for critical systems
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members as needed
- Lead or participate in high level technical concepts spanning technology and business
- Develop specifications for complex infrastructure systems, design and test solutions
- Contribute to the testing of business, application and technical infrastructure requirements
- Drive solutions to reduce recovery
- Review and analyze solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
- Design, code, test, debug and document programs using Agile development practices
- Design complex system upgrades
- Resolve troublesome trends as they develop
- Develop a long range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
- Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
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- 4+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of experience with Splunk or other logging/monitoring tools
- 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- 4+ years of experience with databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or MongoDB
- Experience with .NET applications
- Background in financial services or trading environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to work effectively under pressure
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Familiarity with platform engineering concepts and operational best practices
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
- Direct the daily risk and control flow of operations, focusing on policies, procedures and work standards to ensure success
- Flexibility to frequently be on call beyond normal working hours
20 Sep 2025
*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.
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Client-provided location(s): St. Louis, MO
Job ID: WellsFargo-R-485151
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2025-09-06T18:09:09
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- FSA
- HSA
- Mental Health Benefits
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
Parental Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Return-to-Work Program
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Stock Purchase Program
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Access to Online Courses
- Internship Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
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