Principal Full Stack Software Engineer in DevOps

Company: Comerica
Location: Auburn Hills
Posted on: May 6, 2025

Job Description:

Principal Full Stack Engineer, DevOps

A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.

We are looking for a full stack software engineer to join the DevOps transformation journey at Comerica. This is an exciting time to be part of our transformation as we migrate our CI/CD pipeline from Jenkins to Gitlab. This strategic shift aims to streamline our development workflows, enhance automation capabilities, and leverage GitLab's integrated DevOps platform for greater efficiency and collaboration. As a part of this transition, we are modernizing our build and deployment processes, ensuring improved scalability, traceability, and the developer's experience. The ideal candidate will be a key contributor in shaping the future of our CI/CD Infrastructure with new tools and best practices.

The Principal Engineer role will provide engineering and architecture support for complex system management activities related to system software, hardware, performance, problem determination or resource management requiring communication and coordination with vendors, technicians, clients, and management.

Responsibilities specific to this role include:

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software systems and features in a collaborative, Agile environment.
Write clean, efficient, and testable code using languages such as Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript (depending on stack).
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to bring new features and improvements to life.
Participate in code reviews, design sessions, and architecture discussions.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, supporting continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
Work with DevOps tools to improve automation, reliability, and system scalability.
Monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across teams.

Position Responsibilities:
Design and Methodology

Work closely with business units, application teams, infrastructure areas and vendors to identity, review and evaluate the solution requirements.
Investigate and propose strategic fits for virtualization, consolidation and rationalization solution opportunities within the infrastructure or business.
Propose changes to the technical architecture and design solutions as applicable.
Evaluate and align strategic fit solutions across infrastructure platforms and solutions specific to system hardware and software technologies.
Understand, participate, review and influence long term capacity planning and technology investments.

Technical Consulting

Provide Client consulting and planning guidance as applicable for moderate to large highly complex projects/programs.
Provide consultation and works closely with other functional infrastructure areas/departments on multiple initiatives to meet common organizational / business goals and objectives.
Participate in and provides consulting to project teams on architectural, design development, integration opportunities, planning of highly complex systems and assures it is aligned to our established strategies, guiding principles, rationales and practices.

Planning and Organizing

Identify and evaluate projects/programs/initiatives and design processes that enhance and rationalize existing and upcoming solutions.
Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives.
Review, identify and manage requirements for moderate to complex solutions and do a cost value, feasibility and risk analysis.

Risk Management

Review, participate, develop and update architectural standards, guiding principles, rationales and strategies.
Evaluate, review and approve highly complex design solutions for business and Infrastructure project or programs or initiatives.

Position Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technology related field, OR equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience, OR 12 years of technology experience
7 years of experience identifying technical solutions for complex business problems, identifying the benefits and risks of the solutions and providing recommendations
6 years of Technology experience
5 years of experience mentoring another technologist
This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with microservices architectures or distributed systems
Knowledge of frontend technologies (React, Angular, Vue) or mobile development is a plus
Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and continuous delivery practices
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and related technology stacks
AWS certification(s), a plus

Work Best Category:
Category C - Days in the office will either be designated days or will vary week to week from 2-5 days

Hours:
8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday

Salary:
To Be Determined Based on Individual Experience

About Comerica
We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family. Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future. Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive. We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs. You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses. We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check.

NMLS certification requirement: where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned into three major business segments; the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica's colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - veterans/individuals with disabilities, committed to workplace diversity.

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