Sr. AWS Platform Engineer - REMOTE

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

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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.

• 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.

• 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 Git Flow 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 Dev Sec Ops  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.

• Proficient in infrastructure automation and scripting using tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Ruby, Bash, Power Shell, AWS SDKs and/or CLI.

• Experience in configuring CI/CD pipelines with…