Senior Engineer II - DevOps, Security & Integration

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

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.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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) 

• Have strong software development, problem solving and debugging skills.
• 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

·        12+ years of experience in large-scale software development.

·        12+ years of experience with developing applications/web services and cloud-native apps using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, REST API, JPA, and other tech stacks (open-source and proprietary).

·        5+ years of designing and developing highly scalable Microservices, Webservices, and Rest API's.

·        5+ years of designing and developing in a Test-Driven Development environment.

·        8+ years of experience with build and deploying services in CI/CD with using tools like GitHub, CircleCI, Harness, Jenkins, GitLab.

·        5+ years of experience working with KAFKA DB, NoSQL DB & Cache Datastore DB.

·        3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

·        3+ years of experience working in cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, AWS, etc

·        Experience in Docker Containerization – understand how to containerize an application, write a docker file, pull an application from GitHub and containerize it. 

·        Experience in Automation – Experience writing scripts from scratch that have been used specifically for automation. Ideally shell but any language will work 

·        Full stack knowledge of application architectures including Single Page Applications, REST APIs 

·        Experience with Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript 

·        Full stack knowledge or familiarity with database architectures including Postgres, NoSQL Databases. 

·        Experience working with public cloud services (preferably AWS or GCP) and a proven track record of building complex infrastructure 

·        Strong hands-on deployment and troubleshooting expertise working with private cloud (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker) 

·        Continuous delivery experience/DevOps/Agile 

·        Familiar with Agile or other rapid application development methods 

·        Hands-on expertise with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages as appropriate and automated testing.

·        Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases 

·        Ability to work with Infrastructures and Platforms including IaaS, PaaS, Cloud technologies and tools for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) 

·        Strong expertise in one of following: Python/ shell scripting, Golang and Rest API .

·        Desirable experience – Splunk, ELK, Node.js, Java, Jboss, WAS, Ansible, Puppet, Cloud management and administration 

Preferred Qualifications: 

·        Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field. 

·        Overall 13+ years of relevant industry experience

·        Technical and Security Experience 

·        Professional certifications (CSSLP, CKA, CKAD, CISSP).

·        Ability to conduct lead proof of concepts.

 

Other skills 

·        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

 

Key Behaviors/Competencies

·        Self-directed, Confident Team Player

·        Strong Technical Thinker

·        Strong Planning, Execution and Collaborative skills

·        Communication skills — Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to document risk and control summary artifacts that translates complex threat models into easy-to-read reports for the business.

·        Openness to Learning: Takes personal responsibility for learning and upskilling. Acquires strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors, and skills. Builds on and applies existing knowledge. Engages in learning from others, inside and outside the organization. 

·        Adaptability: Demonstrates flexibility within a variety of changing situations, while working with individuals and groups. Changes his or her own ideas or perceptions in response to changing circumstances. 

Business Acumen: Demonstrates an awareness of American Express internal dynamics.

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

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.  

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.