Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First American is a long-standing company dedicated to its people and fostering an inclusive culture. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for their Platform Engineering team to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive the development of innovative technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting a robust set of APIs and back-end services
- Collaborate with product management, software engineering, platform, and other cross-functional teams and leaders to iteratively design, develop, and validate outcome-driven technology solutions
- Mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth
- Drive the implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions that meet all quality & security standards
- Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement
Skills
- 3-5 years managing cloud and platform engineering teams in a fast-paced environment
- 6+ years of building HA and DR solutions in one or more of Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Proven track record of delivering fit-for-purpose, technical solutions balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability
- Leadership skills to mobilize and motivate a high-functioning engineering team
- Passion, perspective, and empathy for unblocking software engineering teams working to achieve their goals
- A balanced approach between Platform Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations
- Ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing solutions
- Ability to mentor cloud and platform engineers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
- Knowledge of software engineering practices for the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience mentoring engineers at various levels and supporting their career growth
- An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage, etc.) to inform areas for continuous improvement
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship, collaboration, and organization skills
- Automation and scripting (GitHub Actions, Python, bash, PowerShell)
- Containerized development (Docker)
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
- AWS Cloud Services: API Gateway, EC2, EKS, Fargate, ECR, S3, Lambda, RDS, ALB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, VPC, Subnets, IAM, Security Groups, Transit gateways
- Azure Cloud Services: API Management, VM, AKS, Container Apps/Registry, Storage Accounts, Functions, App Gateway, Service Bus, Azure Monitor/Activity Log, Key Vault, VNET, NSG, Virtual WAN, Peering
- GCP Cloud Services: API Gateway, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run/Storage/Functions/SQL, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring/Logging/Audit, Secret Manager, VPC, IAM, NCC, Cloud Router
- Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financial Services or Healthcare
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k
- PTO/paid sick leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
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