Infrastructure Engineer

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

• Works closely with Operations and Engineering Teams to identify feature sets that impact private and public cloud platforms to ensure availability and reduce toil
• Performs hands-on architecture, design and development of monitoring systems to provide continuous support for ongoing infrastructure and application availability
• Understands current incidents and provides solutions to detect, recover, and prevent re-occurrence

• Understanding of Linux functionalities / features as well as good experience of shell scripting
• Experience in clouds platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure is beneficial
• Good understanding of Container & Orchestration Technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Experience in automation tools such as Ansible
• Experience in NoSQL databases such as Couchbase preferred
• Ability to work with Infrastructures and Platforms including IaaS, PaaS, Cloud technologies and tools for Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years of industry experience with 1+ years of software development experience in Python

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