Devops Manager

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 provides exceptional experiences and lasting value to our customers.

First American is seeking candidates for a leadership role in our Infrastructure and Operations team. An ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a product mindset and takes a hands-on approach for driving engineering best practices. As the Manager of Software Engineering Enablement, you will build and lead a team of skilled engineers to modernize the way we deliver and operate our core, mission critical, software platforms using modern tools, techniques, and cloud native services.

What You ll Do:

• Technical Leadership: Provide vision and technical leadership to guide a team of engineers in designing, delivering, and supporting golden paths including on demand delivery of infrastructure and CI/CD for our software teams to consume with low cognitive load and high security. This also includes work breakdown, prioritization, and backlog management.
• Collaborate/Partner: Collaborate with engineering teams and other technical leaders within First American, to learn about your customers plans and needs, discover how other organizations are using technology to support their engineering teams, and to raise the bar across First American in DevOps and cloud capabilities.
• People Leadership Development: Our people are our greatest asset and you will mentor, coach, train, and support your team and others in their careers and personal growth.
• Quality Security Focused: Drive implementation of functionally appropriate and technically sound solutions meeting all quality security standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead the team in achieving ambitious goals, providing regular feedback, and driving continuous improvement.

What You ll Bring:

• 6+ years in the cloud and DevOps field, with 2+ as a people/team leader
• Proven track record for 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 Software Engineering principles and modern Infrastructure Operations

Deep experience with:

• Automation orchestration tooling such Azure DevOps (ADO), Github Enterprise, or Gitlab
• Infrastructure automation tooling such as Terraform and Ansible
• AWS infrastructure and cloud native services such as Lambda
• Windows Server automation
• Various git patterns such as gitflow and trunk based development
• Working within a highly regulated industry such as Financials Services or Healthcare

Ideally you will also have experience with:

• Powershell, bash, Python, and/or golang development
• Supporting .net (Core Framework), node.js, and golang applications Containers (Windows and Linux)
• Kubernetes
• Database automation administration
• Cloud cost management automation
• Network/Cloud security core concepts and tooling
• AppSec/DevSecOps tooling such as Veracode SAST and DAST
• Automated software testing (unit, component, API, functional)
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organization skills