Lead Information Security Engineer, Web Application Security

Wells Fargo

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Closes tomorrow Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Charlotte, NCIrving, TXChandler, AZColumbus, OH
Salary
$119,000–$187,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 30, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Below market

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This role pays less than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $151,475–$213,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is one of the largest banks in the United States, providing banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services nationwide. Industry: Banking & Financial Services

Wells Fargo currently has 21 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $139,000–$239,000 across 10 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Information Security Engineer, Web Application Security

Lead Information Security Engineer - Web Application Security joins the Inbound Web Application Security team to provide audit and control support, process improvements, and engineering documentation. The role involves providing security consulting on large projects, designing and testing complex security solutions, and reviewing security logs to ensure conformity with corporate policies. Key responsibilities include identifying vulnerabilities, performing risk assessments, and evaluating remediation alternatives for networking, cryptography, cloud, and authentication systems. The position requires expertise in Layer 7 web security, including Bot, API, L7 DDoS, and WAF technologies. Candidates should possess experience with HTTP/S, ServiceNow, Akamai, Cloudflare, DNS, and Load Balancing. Technical skills in Jira, Confluence, and strategic planning are essential for solving security problems within a complex financial services technology environment.

What you'll do

  • Provide security consulting on large projects to ensure conformity with corporate policies and standards.
  • Design, document, test, and maintain complex security solutions for networking, cloud, and authentication.
  • Review and correlate security logs to identify potential threats or system issues.
  • Identify security vulnerabilities, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives.
  • Implement security components including threat modeling, incident response, and access management.
  • Create engineering documentation and provide support for application IDs and change creations.
  • Provide audit and control support for technologies within the inbound web application security space.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in an enterprise environment.
  • Layer 7 web security experience including Bot, API, L7 DDoS, and WAF (preferred).
  • Advanced knowledge of HTTP/S (preferred).
  • ServiceNow experience (preferred).
  • Experience with vendors such as Akamai and/or Cloudflare and CDN experience (preferred).
  • Familiarity with DNS and Load Balancing (preferred).
  • Technical documentation experience, Jira, Confluence, and strategic planning experience (preferred).

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