Senior Platform Engineer II

Company Summary

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.

Job Summary

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with at least 7 years of experience to join our platform engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the internal platforms and tools that empower our software development teams to operate efficiently and effectively. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will lead the implementation of robust platform solutions that streamline development workflows across the organization. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help create scalable, resilient, and high-performing platforms that advance our strategic objectives and foster innovation throughout the company.

Key Responsibilities

• •Design, develop, and maintain robust cloud platforms (AWS must have, Azure, Google Cloud is good to have).
• •Enhance monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to ensure high availability and performance.
• •Work closely with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with organizational goals.
• •Identify and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring the stability and scalability of the platforms.
• •Foster a collaborative and innovative environment.

Key Requirements

• •7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps domain.
• •Advanced knowledge in AWS and Azure cloud.
• •Advanced knowledge in IaC tools Terraform, Terragrunt.
• •Hands-on experience with Packer Tool (Image Builder) tool.
• •Hands-on knowledge in designing and implementing CI/CD pipeline with tools like, GitHub Action, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or similar.
• •Hands-on knowledge in configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet.
• •Hands-on knowledge of Windows and Linux Administration.
• •Hands-on knowledge of integrating security scan tools like SonarQube, Veracode. Synk and StackHawk in CI/CD.
• •Consistently demonstrated the capability to develop and build solutions.
• •Minimum 2+ years of experience in Application development using Python and any scripting language with hands-on experience in Code Reviews.

Nice to Have

• •AWS Certifications, Azure, GCP Knowledge.
• •Immutable Infrastructure with autoscaling capability.
• •Observability & Monitoring.
• •Experience with GitOps workflows and progressive delivery strategies.
• •Experience with System & IT operation – Windows and Linux OS administration.
• •Understanding of networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies), Microsoft Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.