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Description

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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The engineer will be equipped to pave the Public Cloud journey for American Express for applications and platforms, with opportunities to design, build and engineer some of the core foundations pieces for AWS as part of the Cloud Platform Engineering.

• Responsible to identify the building blocks needed to manage AWS Infrastructure

• Helps in streamlining the procurement of AWS Accounts

• Paves the foundational Networking and Security components needed for Amex applications and platforms to host on AWS

• Builds the automation pipelines needed to scale the account orchestration workflows

• Identifies potential gaps in the existing process to smoothen the customer/platform experience to use AWS as an alternate Cloud Provider alongside the Private Cloud Solutions

• Able to apply the "secure-from-start" principle of Software development practices

• Understands the complexity of multiple application/platform design patterns and strives towards building solutions

• Is a good team player and foster a culture of togetherness in building Cloud Platforms

Minimum Qualifications

• Good understanding of AWS IAM and AWS Networking Principles

• Has a good exposure towards building AWS VPCs across multiple use-cases including knowledge in AWS Transit Gateway Associations, AWS NAT Gateways and AWS Direct Connect

• Has built AWS IAM policies and Role bindings catering to multiple AWS Services with single and/or dedicated/shared access for multiple teams and/or users.

• Has a good experience of building automation using bash/shell scripting

• Has good experience in a programming language of choice, preferably Python/Java and/or Golang

• Is familiar with Version Control Systems like Git or SVN.

• Has good experience in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions

• Is familiar with SDLC tools like JIRA and its lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience in AWS Services like EC2, VPC, IAM and AWS Control Tower

• Strong experience in Golang

• Ability to build workflows using orchestrator tools using Github Actions and Conductor/Cadence SDKs

• Strong in AWS Networking concepts to pave the on-prem services to AWS VPCs

• Can design solutions around orchestrations

• Is a good team player and collaborates with multiple stakeholders and partners

• Can engage with AWS Architects and can propose solutions around some challenging problems

Qualifications

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 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 working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 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 .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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

Job: Technology

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25006903