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 eight 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 What We Do 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, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that provide exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers. First American is seeking candidates for a Lead DevOps Engineer role. An ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and managing cloud automation workflows and tools to support automated CI/CD pipeline application deployments in AWS. The candidate will also apply technical expertise to solve cloud-native solutions at scale along with leading and evangelizing transformations and driving innovation. The role will also contribute by developing assets for the DevOps Practice, supporting a community of practice, and developing a culture of shared accountability as it relates to security, faster product delivery, continuous improvement, and automation. What You’ll Do Build: Design, build and support the overall DevOps architecture and automate application and infrastructure development and deployment pipelines (IaC) by building scalable and re-usable patterns. Collaborate: Partner with product and engineering domain teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of solutions being developed through DevOps best practices. You will also collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Info Sec teams to implement security and compliance policies across our cloud infrastructure running our applications and services. Implement: Research, design, and implement monitoring and observability tools to evaluate health, usage, and availability of services running in the cloud. The role is also responsible for implementing zero downtime and blue-green deployment strategies. Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to more junior DevOps engineers. Mentor and coach other team members. Best Practices: Responsible for establishing and optimizing our DevOps practices, including training, establishing methodologies, and creating /maintaining practice artifacts. Evangelize and drive adoption of best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), CI/CD, security, and compliance controls to protect the integrity and availability of our data and applications. Also, adopt a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement across the engineering squads. What You’ll Bring 7+ years in the software engineering field, with 3+ years serving as a senior DevOps engineer/lead/architect with a focus on AWS. Good experience designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale infrastructure on AWS, as well as deep understanding of AWS services and best practices. Strong knowledge in key DevOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), message brokers, observability, and monitoring, serverless computing, containerization, and scripting languages like Python. Strong hands-on experience writing Terraform code including the creation and use of Terraform modules. Solid experience managing containerization and container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes including expertise in deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications at scale. Knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, VPCs, Subnets, DNS, load balancers, firewalls etc. Experience working with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks and tools such as Kafka, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Search, Open Telemetry and Kibana. Experience using Kubernetes, Helm, Docker containers and ADO pipelines. Hands-on experience in consuming and configuring AWS services – ECS, EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, KMS etc. The candidate should have leadership skills with the ability to lead and mentor other DevOps engineers, as well as collaborate effectively with other teams and stakeholders. Passion to lead from the front by keeping in touch with emergent technologies to keep our platform and services in alignment with industry trends. Collaborate with solution architects, product teams, SRE, operations, and leadership to identify and prioritize technology initiatives and ensure alignment with business objectives. Pay Range: $94,798 – $211,002 Annually 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.
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#LI-JC2 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. 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.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform Amazon Web Services (AWS) amazon-ecr Enterprise architecture (EA) Apache Kafka open-telemetry DNS amazon-ecs Elasticsearch Prometheus Docker Grafana Kibana Splunk load-balancing CI/CD amazon-s3 Python VPN DevOps amazon-eks Kubernetes vpc amazon-rds Firewalls amazon-kms Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)