Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

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Our Servicing Site Reliability Engineering team is seeking a driven, well-rounded computer science professional to join our growing team. In this role, you will work with a multi-functional team responsible for assessing production readiness for new applications, features, and infrastructure changes. You must be a self-starter! Eager to learn new technology trends, and partner with the business teams to ensure technology changes do not impact our customers. If you are an engineer with a passion for operating things and the desire to understand full stack (business down to infrastructure), and you embrace the instinct to code problems away, then this dynamic role is for you!

What will you do as a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer?

Software Engineering & Reliability

• Collaborate closely with development and business teams.
• Partner with extended site reliability teams and service assurance teams to address upstream and downstream events.
• Proficient at handling and resolving Incidents and Events.
• Drive Problem resolution and build user stories.
• Debug defects as well as develop dashboards using modern monitoring tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk) to enable reduction in detection time.
• Effectively lead a bridge and escalate as part of a larger incident management process.
• Function as member of a DevOps Team following the agile practice to provide design inputs and operational standard methodologies.
• Provides monitoring of key application performance and capacity constraints to mitigate potential incidents before they impact the customer.
• Conduct data mining/analysis activities to provide meaningful insights to support issue identification, resolution, etc.
• Monitor and measure accuracy of inbound data feeds, data conditioning processes and work with Engineering leaders to identify and drive resolution of quality gaps.

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. Amex 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 on #TeamAmex

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering or related technical experience. 4 to 5 years of dynamic experience in software engineering a plus.
• Experience with identifying application/infrastructure risks and mitigation strategy and the ability to work with a team to ensure risks are mitigated.
• Experience with debugging techniques for root cause analysis of issues.
• ITIL® working knowledge: Event, Incident, Release, Problem and Knowledge Management.
• Experience in one or more of the following: programming languages, networking, Linux/Windows, mainframe, middleware, databases, cloud.
• PEGA expereince a plus.

Leadership Skills

• Effectively communicate to business and leadership on restoration.
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate and contribute to established goals.
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.

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.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

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