Principal Engineer
Columbus, OH 
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Posted 17 days ago
Job Description
Who We AreJoin a team that puts its People First! First American's Agency Division is dedicated to providing our policy-issuing agents with resources, services and underwriting guidance needed to achieve new levels of success. 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 nine 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 www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

First American is looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team. You will build secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create the platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast. If you are ready to bring your skills to work alongside our team of engineers, we promise you'll be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there.

What you will do

  • Develop and Implement complex automation tasks and cloud architecture
  • Advocate DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods, and cultural practices
  • Assist with estimating work efforts required for each phase of an agile project
  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and less experienced engineers
  • Identify and raise technical risks and issues
  • Research and stay current in AWS, technology, associated vendor products, and their interdependencies

Your qualifications

  • 5+ years of progressively responsible software engineering and DevOps experience
  • Experience designing and implementing end-to-end Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Demonstrated production environment experience with at least one major public cloud (i.e., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience in Configuration Management and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc...)
  • Experience collaborating across multiple functional and/or technical teams to deliver an Agile-based project
  • Demonstrated growth mentality, enthusiasm about learning new technologies quickly and applying the gained knowledge to address practical business problems
  • Ability to communicate with team members and partners to work through technical solutions
  • Experience delivering complex solutions utilizing common scripting/programming languages (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc...)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of fundamental cloud security (e.g., Identity and Access Management, firewalls, etc...)

What We OfferBy 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.
First American invests in its employees' development and well-being, empowers them to provide superior customer service and encourages them to serve the communities where they live and work. First American is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer.

 

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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
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