Senior Information Security Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer to accelerate modernization and scale of our Security Baseline Configuration program. This role is responsible to independently drive complex work to closure in a high-volume environment, lead cross-functional delivery across teams, and raise the technical bar through automation, scripting, and practical AI-enabled efficiency. This role will be accountable to convert policies and legacy procedures into a secure-by-default, consumable catalog of baseline options that shortens deployment timelines and measurably improves security outcomes

In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in computer security incident response activities for moderately complex events
• Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies
• Provide security consulting on medium projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards
• Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for moderately complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security
• Review and correlate security logs
• Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity
• Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

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

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant Technology /Security discipline
• One or more professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CCSK, CRISC or other industry security certifications
• Strong Jira experience (workflow usage, ticket hygiene, dependency/aging discipline)
• Experience implementing or tailoring hardening standards aligned to CIS Benchmarks
• Expert depth in automation/scripting, baseline configuration engineering, or validation/attestation patterns
• Experience building standardized “catalog” offerings or secure-by-default patterns consumed by multiple teams