DevSecOps Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo in Columbus, OH

DevSecOps Principal Engineer Location: COLUMBUS, OH Why Wells Fargo Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader –we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. Join us! About this role: The COO Technology group provides technology services for the Chief Operating Office. This includes operations, control executives, strategic execution, business continuity and resiliency, data solutions and services, regulatory relations, customer experience, enterprise shared services, supply chain management, and the corporate properties group. COO Technology provides technology solutions and manages application portfolios for these groups to support modernization and optimization. Within COO Technology we are seeking a DevSecOps Principal Engineer whose role is essential for translating strategic vision into technical execution. The COO DevSecOps team’s unique value lies in integrating security into automation and delivery, orchestrating cross-team workflows, and ensuring that modern infrastructure and deployment practices are both efficient and secure. The DevSecOps team collaborates with Enterprise Infrastructure Management to optimize compute resources, partners with Cyber Security to enforce security policies and leverage threat intelligence and works with the Chief Development Office to refine deployment tools and frameworks—while operationalizing and integrating these capabilities into the delivery lifecycle. This role will architect secure & scalable CI/CD processes and procedures, lead cloud infrastructure decisions, and work with the Site Reliability Engineering team to embed reliability and observability across platforms. Their enterprise-level influence on tooling, automation, and resilience engineering will accelerate modernization and ensure robust, secure, and efficient delivery pipelines for COO Technology. In this role, you will: Strategic Technology Leadership & Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, shaping enterprise technology strategy, influencing architecture decisions, and driving innovative solutions aligned to business objectives and long-term vision. Engineering Excellence & Transformation: Lead resolution of complex enterprise challenges, drive DevSecOps practices, automation, and Agentic AI adoption, while ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and adherence to platform architecture and standards. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery: Partner with architects, product teams, and vendors to enable modernization (cloud, data, applications), remove delivery roadblocks, support Agile execution, and drive continuous improvement, innovation, and business value. DevOps, Automation & Delivery: Extensive experience in scripting, automation, DevOps tools, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD/CT pipelines, enabling efficient, secure, and reliable software delivery across the SDLC. Required Qualifications: 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education 7+ years of DevOps, Automation & Delivery experience: Extensive experience in scripting, automation, DevOps tools, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD/CT pipelines, enabling efficient, secure, and reliable software delivery across the SDLC. 7+ years of experience in Observability, OTEL & Platform Engineering: driving technology strategy with hands-on expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTEL), observability frameworks, and performance engineering. 7+ years of Strong experience with OCP (OpenShift), Cloud Foundry principles, and SDLC toolchains including Maven/Gradle build orchestration. 7+ years of experience with Cloud, Data & Secure Architecture: Proven experience across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on data-intensive systems, performance optimization, and secure-by-design architectures, embedding observability into scalable, distributed, and microservices-based environments. Desired Qualifications: Experience with AI, Financial Domain & Leadership: 5+ years in financial services with experience leading Generative and classical AI initiatives, including exposure to LLMs, Agentic AI, and enterprise technology roadmaps, backed by strong executive presence and strategic thinking. Experience with Observability, Data & Platform Engineering: Expertise in monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, AppDynamics) and modern data/platform ecosystems (Python, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, microservices, NoSQL/Graph DBs), enabling scalable and resilient solutions. Experience with Delivery, Communication & Transformation: Proven leadership in Agile transformations, strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to drive end-to-end delivery, problem-solving, and collaboration across technical and business teams. Job Expectations: This position offers a hybrid work schedule - ability to work in office Relocation assistance is not available for this position Ability to travel 20% 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 - $254,000.00 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: 3 Jun 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: a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo. b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process. Additional Locations: IRVING, TX