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

Cloud Security - Senior Information Security Engineer

About FAI:

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and was named one of FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2024. 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. FAI has been certified a Great Place to work by Great Place to work Institute®, is a certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices.

 

Job Summary:

The Senior Security Engineer – Cloud Security is responsible for implementing, operating, and continuously improving the organization’s Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and associated cloud security capabilities.

The role will work closely with Cloud Platform, DevOps/DevSecOps, Application Security, Security Operations, Vulnerability Management, and application teams to identify cloud security risks, improve security posture, and drive vulnerabilities and misconfigurations through remediation.

The ideal candidate combines strong cloud security knowledge, CNAPP platform expertise, automation skills, and hands-on experience securing enterprise cloud environments.

 

Responsibilities:

•         Implement, configure, and administer the organization's enterprise CNAPP platform across cloud environments.

•         Onboard cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, Kubernetes clusters, container registries, and other supported cloud resources into the CNAPP platform.

•         Configure integrations with AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, identity providers, ticketing systems, SIEM, and other security tools.

•         Maintain CNAPP policies, rules, connectors, permissions, integrations, and platform configurations.

•         Monitor platform health, coverage, data ingestion, scanning status, and integration failures.

•         Evaluate and implement new CNAPP capabilities as the organization's cloud environment and security requirements evolve.

•         Review findings related to cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, storage, compute, containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and cloud-native services.

•         Work with cloud engineering teams to establish secure cloud configuration baselines.

•         Analyze vulnerabilities and security findings affecting cloud workloads, virtual machines, containers, images, and cloud-native services.

•         Prioritize findings based on exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, attack paths, and business context rather than severity alone.

•         Work with infrastructure and application teams to drive remediation

•         Use CNAPP capabilities to identify externally exposed resources, vulnerable workloads, excessive privileges, and combinations of risks that create exploitable attack paths.

 

Qualifications: (Skills, Knowledge, and Experience)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of Information Security experience, with significant hands-on experience in cloud security.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise CNAPP platforms such as Orca Security, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Cloud security architecture
  • Cloud IAM and least privilege
  • Cloud networking and exposure
  • Vulnerability management
  • Containers and Kubernetes security
  • Infrastructure-as-Code security
  • Cloud logging and monitoring
  • Security configuration management
• Experience analyzing and remediating cloud security findings.
• Experience working with APIs and automation using Python, PowerShell, or equivalent scripting languages.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex security integrations and cloud configurations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, particularly cloud-related attack techniques.
• Relevant certifications such as:
  • CCSP
  • CCSK
  • AWS Security Specialty
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
  • Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
  • CISSP or equivalent

 

FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.