Position Title
Principal Technology Engineer
Location
Troy, MI 48098
Job Summary
The Principal Technology Engineer is a hands-on technical expert who is responsible for the backend compute environment including M365, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), operating systems, Microsoft Security Suite (Purview), Entra, Microsoft Defender, backup, certificate management systems, end-user compute devices, and automation and DevOps frameworks. This technical engineer coordinates with cross-functional partners to ensure full lifecycle, compliance, and disaster recovery readiness. This role also owns system documentation, standards, procedures and alignment with FFIEC regulatory guidance. This role works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure reliability, audit readiness, and compliance.
Job Responsibilities:
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage Systems, configurations, and system stability
Technical engineer overseeing development of M365, Azure, and AWS platform solutions to protect company assets
Provides monitoring and resolution support for alerts generated by Microsoft Purview, DLP, cloud security services, and certificate management related systems
Provides certificate management and maintenance to enterprise systems leveraging enterprise certificate lifecycle and secrets management platforms.
Provides final oversight on high-risk platform upgrades, migrations, and cloud deployments.
DevOps and automation
Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines used to deploy infrastructure and platform changes across on-premises and cloud environments
Delivers infrastructure as code and configuration management to standardize builds and reduce manual effort
Integrates automated testing, secrets management, and policy enforcement into deployment pipelines
Establishes logging, monitoring, and alerting standards that support platform reliability and incident response
Compliance and audit
Owns overall compliance posture for backend and cloud systems, ensuring full adherence to FFIEC guidelines, audit requirements, and IT risk management policies.
Coordinates with internal audit, risk, and compliance teams to deliver accurate evidence and remediation plans.
Drives continuous improvement of compliance processes to reduce audit findings and enhance security posture.
Daily requests, new builds, cross-team collaboration
Monitors and maintain Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, cloud native security services, and corporate certificate systems
Acts as escalation point for major incidents and coordinate with leadership during crisis events.
Delivers and collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise goals.
Champions disaster recovery planning, test execution, and after-action review improvements.
Documentation and Reporting
Ensures all backend, cloud, and pipeline documentation is accurate, current, and meets audit standards.
Reviews and approve daily/weekly/monthly operational and compliance reports before submission to leadership.
Promotes documentation as a core operational discipline across the team, setting expectations and accountability for quality.
Reports team performance metrics and operational health to IT leadership.
Business and Technology Alignment
Ensure we are aligning IT solutions with the needs of the business
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Performs special projects, and additional duties and responsibilities as required.
Consistently adheres to regulatory and compliance policies and standards linked to the job as listed and complete required compliance trainings. Accountable to maintain compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Required Qualifications:
Education level required: High School / High School Equivalency (GED, HiSET, TASC) / Foreign Equivalent Computer Science or related field.
Minimum experience required: 10+ Years managing large scale technology.
Minimum experience required: 8+ Years of technical expertise in one or…