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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Senior Engineer in Cloud Engineering, you will be a key to the development of Hybrid Cloud Platform as Service (PaaS) architecture and systems that span multiple clouds ( AWS, GCP,Azure, Private Cloud). In this role you

·        Perform Rapid POCs to prove software initiatives and validate ideas for large multi cloud platform deployments

·       Actively participate in the design of new systems and the redesign of existing systems to meet product requirements, changing needs

·       Support engineers and product managers in rapid development and deployment in agile fashion

·       Drive both high level and detailed design, conduct design reviews, and feature implementation

·       Engage and work with cross-functional leaders to understand and help define business principles, goals and strategy within scope of responsibility.

·       Communicate to senior leaders with regard to strategy direction and changes.

·       Mentor engineers and solution architects to ensure technology complexities are understood very clearly to implement solutions expeditiously with high quality.

·       Troubleshoot production issues by engaging support teams and assist in the resolution of issues; formulate action plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; perform root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues; and create/update support Runbooks

 

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field

6+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering

6+ years of experience in software development using golang, python or java

4+ years of experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems design and architecture

Preferred Qualifications

AWS/GCP/Azure/OpenShift experience

CKD/A, Public cloud solution architect certifications

Terraform, Ansible experience

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

Competitive base salaries  Bonus incentives  6% Company Match on retirement savings plan  Free financial coaching and financial well-being support  Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits  Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need  20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy  Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)  Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program  Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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