Senior Information Security Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a motivated Senior Information Security Engineer to join an exciting, fast paced team working on cutting edge encryption, tokenization and key management technologies that are leveraged to protect information companywide.  This role will be an individual contributor to teams that design, deploy, and operationally maintain cryptographic products and services including Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and security appliances.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design and deployment of cryptographic products in physical, virtual, and containerized environments. The ideal candidate will also have demonstrated experience in automating processes including product builds, operational maintenance, and customer integration and onboarding. 

In this role, you will:

• Design, deploy and operationally maintain Hardware Security Modules and security appliances.

• Drive design, deployment and automation strategies for encryption, tokenization and key management products and services including Hardware Security Modules, security appliances and security applications deploying in physical, virtual, and containerized environments.

• Developing and deploying service health features which include synthetic transactions and system monitoring utilizing standard protocols such as Syslog, Splunk and Prometheus.

• Participate in evaluation and testing of new cryptographic products and services.

• Develop and maintain documentation including design and build guides, deployment strategies, automation guides and operational processes.

• Support company driven audits, gather evidence of compliance to company policies, and drive product enhancements, when needed, to remediate findings.

• Collaborate and work with all levels of professionals, including managers.

• Support incident response, root cause analysis and corrective action activities.

• Conduct technical investigation of incidents to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies.

• Need to be capable of creating technical/engineering documentation and have excellent written and oral communication.

• Utilize agile scrum and Kanban processes to track work and participate in recurring agile meetings.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

• 2+ years of intermediate to advanced level experience with scripting/automation using tools such as: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, VBScript, or JavaScript, UI path, etc.

• 2+ years proven experience successfully designing, developing, and deploying automated solutions for technical and engineering processes.

• 1 year experience in designing solutions using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) or security appliance devices

• 2+ years proven experience with change and incident management practices in medium to large enterprise environments.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD automated build and deployment processes.

• Experience with Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

• Advanced scripting skills specifically around log rotation, data collection, error collection and alerting.

• Experience designing, developing, and implementing synthetic transactions for the monitoring of applications and/or infrastructure.

• Experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible or similar automation tools.

• Knowledge and understanding of implementing infrastructure upgrades, security patches, or version upgrades.

• Application development experience.

• Experience with application support in Linux and Windows server environments.

• Experience performing technical product assessments, including development of implementation plans, in a large enterprise.

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.

• Advanced critical thinking, problem solving and technical troubleshooting abilities.

• Security certifications such as CISSP, GIAC or equivalent.

• Cloud certifications such as AZ-900, MS-900 or equivalent/higher.

• Knowledge and understanding of Splunk.

• Knowledge and understanding of banking or the financial services industry.

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

• Ability to work onsite in the office in a hybrid model, 3 days per week on-site/in-office and 2 days per week remote

• Remote work is not available for this position

Locations:

• 401 W Las Collinas Blvd. Bldg A, Irving, TX

• 3075 Loyalty Cir, Columbus, OH

• 1751 Pinnacle Drive, Arlington, VA

Pay Range

$100,000.00- $163,000.00

Benefits:

• Information about Wells Fargo's US employee benefits
• Information about Wells Fargo's International employee benefits

Posting End Date:

03 Oct 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Posting End Date:

*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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