Engineering Manager

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 Job Title: Platform Engineering Manager About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Manager of Platform Engineering to lead our efforts in modernizing our cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will advocate for and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), centralized security measures, and auditing processes while fostering an automation-first mindset throughout the organization. This role will collaborate closely with development teams, improve application observability, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and reusability of our platform offerings. You will be responsible for the delivering high-quality platform-based solutions as part of the Platform Engineering team to support maximizing opportunity cost by ensuring that product value reaches customers in the quickest, most reliable and cost-effective way. Key Responsibilities: Lead and mentor the Platform Engineering team to ensure successful modernization initiatives. Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to streamline deployments and infrastructure management. Responsible for AWS Infrastructure, automation and CI/CD design, leading DevOps and enabling adoption of solutions and deployment in production environment Collaborate closely with the engineering teams/business users to drive DevOps and AWS improvements and enhance usability Should be able to develop overall strategy and roadmap for SRE/DevOps Build strong relationships with application teams and develop a deep understanding of their business objectives and strategic drivers Coaches and mentors, the team towards building a high…