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Be part of a transformative team that is shaping the way First American builds and delivers world-class technology products that fuel the real estate industry. We are looking for the best-of-the-best technology experts that will envision, design, build, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.
First American is seeking candidates for an engineering role in our Platform Engineering team. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset, and takes a hands-on approach for driving engineering best practices. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will help design and implement our technical architecture, software, and tooling used to deliver and operate our core, mission critical, software platforms. The ideal candidate will have a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications and an ability to customize them to help our business remain secure and efficient.
What You’ll Do:
Technical Leadership: Set the example in driving individual user stories to completion from start to finish. Assess and identify risks that may be present to achieving the team’s larger goals. Document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure construction.
Collaborate/Partner: Work in tandem with our platform and software engineering teams and leaders to identify and implement optimal cloud-based solutions for the company.
Quality & Security Focused: Drive implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions meeting all quality & security standards.
Continuous Improvement: Assist the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement. You will participate in all aspects of our software development lifecycle for cloud-based solutions, including planning, defining requirements, developing, testing, and deploying those solutions with the team.
What You’ll Bring:
3+ years in the Cloud and DevOps field.
Proven track record for delivering fit for purpose technical solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability.
A balanced approach between Software Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations.
Automation orchestration tooling such as GitLab CI or Github Enterprise.
Experience with GitOps based deployment methodologies such as ArgoCD, Flux, etc.
Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.
CI/CD best practices and implementation.
Extensive AWS experience including the implementation of cloud native services such as Lambda, EC2, and EKS.
Extensive experience with containerized solutions to include Docker and Kubernetes
Knowledge of various git patterns such as GitFlow and trunk-based development.
Experience working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare preferred.
Technical Skills:
Kubernetes & Helm.
CI/CD pipeline development.
Deployment buildout and maintenance of Terraform based IAC.
GitOps methodologies.
Linux Containerized Workloads / Docker.
Supporting .NET (Core & Framework), Node.js, and Golang applications.
Serverless Technologies / Lambda.
Database automation & administration.
Cloud cost management & automation.
Solid foundation of cloud networking and security for AWS.
Identity Management and least-privileged implementations.
AppSec/DevSecOps tooling such as Veracode SAST and DAST.
PowerShell, Bash, Python, and/or Golang development.
Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organization skills.
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Pay Range: $126,100 - $168,125
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.Top Skills
First American Title Santa Ana, California, USA Office
1 First American Way, Santa Ana, CA, United States, 92707
First American Title Santa Ana, California, USA Office
3 First American Way, Santa Ana, CA, United States, 92707
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