At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

You will be part of the AWZ/Azure Platform Engineering Team of Cloud that build core Cloud capabilities to enable Application teams to build modern applications. The architecture includes PaaS/IaaS/CICD components in a Hybrid Cloud model and technologies that drive to build modern applications.

The ideal candidate:

   This is an individual contributor role to manage and build Public, Private and Hybrid cloud infrastructure at in highly        hydrogenous environment.

   Serve as a key member to help design and delivery of responsive backend services - utilising best practice principles.

   Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities.

   Familiarity with API & integration patterns to securely communicate with backend services and clients.

   Work in an agile delivery team, with familiarity with the processes and ceremonies.

   Has a drive to learn industry leading/innovative technologies and solutions.

   Good positive attitude, communication, willingness to learn and share with others.

    Effective in managing work priorities and your time - both independently and as part of a team

    Bring a culture of innovation and experimentation, as well as manage risk taking to implement creative ideas.

    Bring a culture of continuous improvement and willingness to challenge the status quo.

    Guide and mentor other engineers and collaborate with external teams & Product Owners

    Appetite to learn new technologies and translate them into working software

Minimum Qualifications

   Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

  12+ years of development experience in a modern development stack is essential.

   Experience in IaC development with Terraform and Ansible.

   Hands-on experience deploying and monitoring services running on Kubernetes/ OpenShift.

   Exposure to public cloud services in AWS and Azure is essential

   Experience with automated build and test frameworks is essential.

   Understanding of building applications with secure integration with API Gateways using REST endpoints is a plus.

   Knowledge of programming in Python is a plus.

   Good understanding of Application and Network Security architectures is a plus.

   Understanding of NoSQL, Messaging and caching products such as Kafka, Couchbase and Redis is a plus.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:Competitive base salaries Bonus incentives Support for financial-well-being and retirement Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 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

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.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.