Senior Platform Engineer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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First American (India)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $450M Post-IPO Debt - First American on 2024-09

Insurance • Consulting • Healthcare

First American (India) is a Global Capability Center (GCC) of First American Financial Corporation that provides software development, data & analytics, back-office, and knowledge-processing services to support title insurance, settlement services, mortgage solutions and related risk-management operations across the US, UK, Australia and Canada. With locations in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Salem, FAI delivers corporate IT and production services for its parent company and emphasizes a people-first culture recognized as a top workplace.

📋 Description

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise UNIX/Linux platforms from server provisioning through production readiness and lifecycle management • Lead Linux vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance validation, and audit readiness at enterprise scale • Plan and deliver operating system patching, upgrades, hardening, and fleet maintenance • Automate platform operations with Ansible, Python, Shell, APIs, and infrastructure as code • Maintain Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines • Manage Linux workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including image and platform lifecycle activities • Improve availability with monitoring, diagnostics, auto-remediation, and self-healing capabilities • Resolve complex operating system, network, storage, authentication, and performance issues • Lead root-cause analysis and preventive actions • Manage secure access controls, including SSH, sudo, PAM, certificates, and privileged access • Support incident, problem, and change management, production operations, and on-call response • Maintain platform standards, runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation • Work across teams to improve platform stability and usability • Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to keep services scalable and production-ready

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering experience, including substantial enterprise Linux operations • Expert Linux administration across RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Amazon Linux 2/2023 • Experience with Linux security and kernel patching, canary rollouts, rollback, users and sudo, SSH/sshd configuration, services, permissions, logging, and production troubleshooting • Experience applying and maintaining CIS benchmarks with Ansible Lockdown • Strong Ansible skills for configuration management, patching, and hardening • Experience integrating hardening into golden images and onboarding third-party AMIs • Advanced experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for Linux workloads • Advanced Terraform and Ansible skills • Hands-on experience building standard Linux images with Packer or AWS Image Builder • Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools • Experience remediating Qualys vulnerability QIDs and CIS compliance CIDs • Experience integrating SonarQube, Veracode, Snyk, and StackHawk into CI/CD where applicable • Track record of delivering automated platform solutions • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, scripting, log analysis, documentation, RCA, and automation development • AWS certifications or working knowledge of Azure and Google Cloud are nice to have • Experience with immutable infrastructure, autoscaling, observability, monitoring, GitOps, or progressive delivery is nice to have • Experience supporting mixed Windows/Linux environments and IT operations, with knowledge of DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, Microsoft Active Directory, and ADFS is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Equal Opportunity Employer commitment • Inclusive workplace supporting and respecting all individuals