Senior Engineer- Cloud Engineering

Description - External

You 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.

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 PaaS platform (PaaS/IaaS) for American Express.

The goal of the team is to continue to build upon a robust platform as a service in support of hosting applications both in the private cloud environment as well as in multiple public clouds.

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:

• Be the key owner and pioneer of several large projects in the hybrid owning all technical aspects of software development, focused 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.
• 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:

Qualifications - External

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
• 6+ years of software development experience in one OO programming language: Java, Python, Go
• 3+ years of Linux Experience.
• 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.
• 1 + 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, to include Service Mesh concepts, with experience in Istio preferred, as well as how GTM and LTMs manage traffic flows.
• Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Experience in public clouds such as AWS, GCP, Azure
• 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