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Principal Network Engineer – Reliability
Wells Fargo. Define and drive reliability targets, SLOs/SLIs, risk measures, service health indicators, and improvement plans for critical network services .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in network engineering and reliability engineering, focusing on incident response, service health measurement, and operational stability. Proficient in automation and scripting, with a strong emphasis on improving network service reliability and compliance.
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Network EngineeringReliability EngineeringIncident ResponseRoot Cause AnalysisAutomation Scripting
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Hard Skills
RoutingSwitchingTCP/IPBGPOSPFHigh-Availability DesignLoad BalancingDNSNTPNetwork Security
Soft Skills
MentoringCommunication Under Pressure
Tools & Technologies
PythonPowerShellBashAnsibleTerraform
Certifications & Qualifications
Relevant Certifications
Industry Keywords
Service Level ObjectivesService Level IndicatorsOperational ReadinessProduction ReadinessCapacity Planning
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAnsibleCloudDNSFirewallsPythonSwitchingTCP/IPTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define and drive reliability targets, SLOs/SLIs, risk measures, service health indicators, and improvement plans for critical network services
- Lead major incident response and service restoration
- Drive root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and prevention of repeat incidents
- Review, challenge, and guide network designs for resiliency, scalability, security, capacity, failure isolation, and operational simplicity
- Expand telemetry, alerting, service health reporting, configuration management, automated validation, and self-service capabilities
- Strengthen standards, runbooks, documentation, change quality, failure readiness, compliance-aligned practices, and production readiness reviews
- Partner with network, cloud, security, infrastructure, application, architecture, and vendor teams
- Mentor engineers and communicate complex technical issues to senior stakeholders
- Provide senior technical escalation for critical incidents and high-risk changes
- Support critical incident response as needed
- Travel 5% or less
Requirements
What you’ll need- 7+ years of experience in network engineering, reliability engineering, or network operations supporting business-critical enterprise network services
- 5+ years of expert knowledge of routing, switching, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, high-availability design, load balancing, DNS, NTP, firewalls, and network security
- 5+ years of experience leading complex incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and communication under pressure
- 5+ years applying SRE or reliability engineering practices, including SLOs/SLIs, problem management, service health measurement, operational health metrics, and continuous improvement
- 5+ years improving operational stability and reducing repeat incidents through root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, corrective action planning, systemic remediation, and recurrence prevention
- 5+ years owning corrective actions through implementation, validation, and closure
- 5+ years improving change success rates through risk assessment, peer review, validation testing, rollback planning, and post-change verification
- 5+ years conducting operational readiness, production readiness, failure-mode, or service acceptance reviews
- 5+ years managing vendor escalations, product defects, support cases, and platform lifecycle risks
- 5+ years with capacity planning, performance analysis, traffic engineering, and resiliency planning for large-scale enterprise networks
- 5+ years of hands-on automation or scripting with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent
- 5+ years improving monitoring, telemetry, alerting, dashboards, metrics, service health reporting, or performance visibility
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Network
- Must be able to work without visa sponsorship
- Preferred: enterprise network architecture, relevant certifications, packet capture analysis, regulated-industry experience, and a master’s degree
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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
- Incentive opportunities may be available