Full Job DescriptionYou Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible — and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.
You won’t just shape the world of software.
You’ll shape the world of life, work and play
About American Express Enterprise Cloud Platform (eCP):
American Express Enterprise Cloud platform (eCP) provides a platform that enables business applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express.
eCP offers dynamic rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, DB-as-a-Service, Analytics-as-a-Service, Messaging-as-a-Service, CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. eCP enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.
Come join the PaaS Hybrid Cloud Team in building the next generation of public and private cloud platforms.
Ever wondered what it takes to build a highly available, global scale enterprise wide private PaaS/IaaS cloud platform with an Open Source technology stack and to achieve up-times SLA of Amazon, Google and Force.com?
Then you should consider this innovative and disruptive opportunity where you can be a key transformative contributor to a world-class engineering team building and maintaining the cloud services for American Express.
The goal of the team is to continue to build upon robust cloud services in support of hosting applications both in the private cloud environment as well as in multiple public clouds.
Responsibilities:
Be the key owner and pioneer of several cloud services in the hybrid cloud owning all technical aspects of software development, focused on cloud platform enablement.
Performs hands-on architecture, design and development of systems specifically as it pertains to public clouds, Kubernetes, service mesh, and Terraform.
Ability to understand systems and architectures to quickly identify potential problems.
Assists in implementing solutions for cloud platform enablement. – Sees opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.
Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability.
You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground.
There are hundreds of opportunities to make your mark on technology and life at American Express. Here’s just some of what you’ll be doing:
Using cutting-edge technologies to implement a hybrid cloud platform as a service.
Understand the current implementation of the cloud platform and look for improvements to the platform and dependencies.
Work with Product Owners to understand upcoming features and ensure proper design.
Minimum Qualifications:
Are you up for the challenge?
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience
4+ years of software development experience in one OO programming language: Java, Python, Go
3+ years of Linux Experience.
4+ years of experience in public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle
Confirmed support of production systems at scale.
Understanding of good cloud architecture to ensure high availability while ensuring the highest level of security and visibility.
2+ years of experience with Infrastructure automation tools, Terraform preferred, with a focus on immutable infrastructure.
2+ Years of Experience with Container & Orchestration Technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift
Understanding of Traffic Flow Management, as well as how GTM and LTMs manage traffic flows.
Experience with public cloud monitoring capabilities, also Logging and Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
At the core of Software Engineering, every member of our team should be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business skills you’ll use every day, including:
Agile Practices
Porting/Software Configuration
Programming Languages and Frameworks
Business Analysis
Analytical Thinking
Business Product Knowledge
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected 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.