Sr. AWS Platform Engineer

Who We Are
Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit ;br>
What We Do

** Remote Work Welcome**

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

• 5+ years of experience creating and managing infrastructure in AWS using modern cloud engineering practices.

• Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose technical solutions that balance complexity, performance, and maintainability.

• Balanced approach that integrates software engineering principles with modern infrastructure operations.

• Strong communication, documentation, and teamwork skills.

• Deep experience implementing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD best practices, with a strong understanding of Git patterns such as GitFlow and trunk-based development; monorepo vs. polyrepo strategies; and workflows including code reviews, automated testing, and security automation.

• Extensive experience managing AWS Organizations, accounts, networking components, and cloud-native services.

• Hands-on experience with containerized solutions leveraging Docker.

• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, shift-left methodologies, and DevSecOps processes.

• Experience in using and integrating AI tools into enterprise software development pipelines.

• Experience working within highly regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare is preferred.

Technical Skills

• Proficient in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, AWS SDKs and/or CLI.

• Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and reusable templates for application infrastructure deployments in AWS.

• Experience in configuring least-privilege AWS IAM roles and policies, ABAC, and permission boundaries.

• Experience in managing AWS services such as VPC, Subnets, AWS Config, CloudTrail, VPC Endpoints, Security Groups, Route 53, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and S3.

• Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS, and ArgoCD.

• Solid foundation in networking and Linux administration.

• Familiarity with cloud security, compliance and policy management tools such as Prisma and Cloud Custodian.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent combination of education and experience

Typical Range of Experience

• 5+ years of directly related experience

**Open to remote candidates**

Pay Range: $126,100 - $193,325 / year

This hiring range is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the salary range of possible compensation at the time of the posting, and is subject to change. The actual compensation offered will be determined by various factors, which may include a candidate's education, training, experience, and geographic location.

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What We Offer
By choice, we don't simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

** 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.