Senior Engineer - Development Security Operations

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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.

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This role is an opportunity to join a highly sophisticated and advanced Information Security organization of over 800 people. Within the cyber security world, AMEX has made huge investments into protecting their brand. This is a high visibility program, with backing from high level leadership in the organization. In this senior role, you will be responsible to manage and lead various DevOps activities in large-scale enterprise-wide Cyber Security initiatives.

American Express is seeking a Senior Development Security Operations Engineer with technical competence in building and implementing application security solutions. This person will be part of a fast-paced team responsible for developing and delivering products and components focused on application security. Challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs. This role primarily involves performing Development Operations activity in the team which manages high scalable enterprise applications. This person will be working on integrating "off-the-shelf" Application Security solutions into the environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, operationalize and maintain the secure systems which support continuous deployment/integration solutions with strong focus towards innovation and meet the needs of customer-facing applications, business applications, and/or internal end user applications.
• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Mentor and lead the team on various aspect of business and security technologies.
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments
• Automatically scale applications based on demand projections
• Provides technical expertise to design integrations and automate solutions.
• Provides technical support to Develop, Maintain, customize secure COTS products
• Consistently enable strong developer and customer experience when liaising with application teams. Uphold Blue Box values when liaising with application teams.
• Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging the status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
• Experience in Automation - Experience writing scripts from scratch that have been used specifically for automation. Ideally shell but any language will work
• Continuous delivery experience/DevOps/Agile

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 6+ years Full stack experience with database architectures including Postgres, NoSQL Databases.
• Experience with JavaScript, python, shell scripting, Golang
• Experience with deployment and troubleshooting private cloud (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
• 4+ years experience leading proof of concepts.
• 4+ years experience in Docker Containerization
• 8+ years Experience with Java Development - ability to manage internally written Java programs and Java programming (REST API programming)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven diagnostic, troubleshooting, and service restoration skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, customer service skills, and English communication skills with difficult customers in outage situations.
• Metrics management
• Knowledge of virtualization environments (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, KVM)
• Knowledge of distributed version control systems (e.g. Git/Stash)
• Experience with automated build and deployment tools (Jenkins, Chef, etc.)
• Experience working on open source platforms (Apache, Tomcat, nginx, Node.js, etc)
• Hosted and cloud-based service experience (EC2/AWS and/or private cloud)
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Strong software development, problem solving and debugging skills
• Understand how to containerize an application, write a docker file, pull an application from GitHub and containerize it.
• Experience with Kotlin and GO
• Experience working with public cloud services (preferably AWS or GCP
• Hands-on expertise with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate and automated testing.
• Ability to work with Infrastructures and Platforms including IaaS, PaaS, Cloud technologies and tools for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Professional certifications (CKA, CKAD, CISSP).
• 2+ Application Security Experience
• Experience with Splunk, ELK, Node.js, Java, Jboss, WAS, Ansible, Puppet, Cloud management and administration.

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 work arrangements and schedules with hybrid and virtual options with Amex Flex
• 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.

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.

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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