Principal Platform Engineer

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

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and design delivery of enterprise-grade Azure solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure and resilient.
• Assess the organization’s current infrastructure, applications, and business requirements to determine the optimal cloud architecture.
• Lead the development process and operations and identify setbacks and shortcomings that need to be improved and mentor the team to promote a culture of engineering excellence.
• Develop and execute cloud migration strategies with minimal operational disruption.
• Participate in architectural reviews, threat modelling and risk mitigation planning.
• Deep analytical skills to identify issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Manage proof of concepts, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate and eventually adopt most suitable Cloud Computing (Public Clouds, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) model for the customer with respect to the customer’s business context.
• Collaborate with cloud computing colleagues inside and outside the industry to define Cloud Computing adoption models, best practices, use cases, guidance documents.
• Create architectures that can scale seamlessly to accommodate growth and fluctuating workloads, leveraging services like auto-scaling, serverless computing, and distributed databases.
• Design architectures with redundancy, fault tolerance, and high availability to minimize downtime and ensure continuous service delivery.
• Evaluate the offerings of cloud service providers (CSPs) such as Azure, AWS, GCP selecting services like compute instances, storage options, databases, and networking components that best suit the organization’s needs.
• Develop Self-Service APIs, CI / CD Pipelines, Terraform Code for Infrastructure as a Code and Terraform Modules for Azure Support Service and Business Units Application Service Automation.
• Azure Cloud Infrastructure (IAAS, PAAS and SAS) Support, Consultations, Services Onboarding, Innovations and Cost Optimization initiatives.
• Security integration of every aspect of the infrastructure, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, network security, and compliance controls.

Key Requirements

Nice to Have

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Azure Devops Engineer Expert

Azure Security Engineer Associate

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