Cybersecurity Platform SRE – Senior Manager

About this role

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This role is a hybrid position and in the office three days a week.

There is no visa sponsorship or visa transfers for this role.

Wells Fargo is seeking a Cybersecurity Senior Manager, Executive Director to lead the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function for our Identity & Access Management (IAM) Platform Team supporting a 24×7 global enterprise.

You will own the reliability, availability, performance, and security posture of mission‑critical IAM services (e.g., Access Administration, privileged access, authentication/authorization, directory services) that protect hundreds of thousands of users and millions of access decisions daily.

This role blends platform engineering, reliability operations, and cyber risk management. You’ll lead a global team of SRE managers/engineers, partner with Cybersecurity, Cloud, and Line‑of‑Business technology teams, and drive measurable outcomes for resiliency, service level objectives (SLOs), operational excellence, and regulatory compliance.

In this role, you will

• Own IAM platform reliability end‑to‑end: define SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity plans, and resiliency roadmaps for core services (e.g., access administration, identity lifecycle, authentication, federation, PAM, directories).
• Lead a 24×7 follow‑the‑sun operation: build and mature global on‑call rotations, incident response, and Major Incident Management (MIM) practices with clear RACI and runbooks.
• Engineer for resiliency: champion chaos testing, failure mode analysis, multi‑region/high‑availability patterns, DR/BCP validation, and automated health checks.
• Automate everything: drive “operations as code,” CI/CD for platform changes, immutable infrastructure, policy‑as‑code, automated compliance checks, and self‑service tooling for developers and operators.
• Manage risk & compliance: ensure controls alignment (e.g., SOX, FFIEC, GLBA, PCI where applicable), identity governance, separation of duties, and auditable change management.
• Elevate observability: standardize logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable alerting; implement service catalogs, golden signals, and error‑budget policies.
• Optimize cost & performance: track usage, right‑size capacity, and tune platform configurations while maintaining security and reliability objectives.
• Lead people & culture: attract, develop, and retain diverse SRE talent; set objectives, coach managers/ICs, and foster a blameless post‑incident culture with continuous learning.
• Partner & influence: work with product owners, security architects, enterprise architecture, and risk partners to align roadmaps and deliver high‑impact outcomes.
• Stakeholder communication: deliver clear status, metrics, and executive‑ready updates on risk, reliability, and remediation programs.

Required qualifications

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

• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

•            Deep experience operating Cybersecurity platforms at scale or similar experience. (e.g., identity lifecycle, authentication/federation, directory/PKI, privileged access, secrets, cyber defense).

•            Proven track record establishing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets, driving reliability improvements through automation and engineering.

•            Experience managing cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and/or containerized workloads (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and CI/CD.

•            Demonstrated leadership in Major Incident response, post incident reviews, and production change management/governance in regulated environments.

•            Strong understanding of security controls, identity governance, least privilege, and regulatory/audit expectations.

•            Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior executives and partner across Cybersecurity, Risk, and Engineering.

Desired qualifications

•            Experience with one or more enterprise IAM stacks (e.g., SailPoint/IGA, Okta/Azure AD/Entra ID, CyberArk/BeyondTrust, HashiCorp Vault, enterprise PKI, LDAP/AD).

•            Expertise with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, OpenTele