At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
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.
- Support day-to-day infrastructure operations across Windows and Linux server environments along with server administration, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Monitor infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance & investigate and resolve infrastructure incidents and service requests within defined SLAs.
- Assist with server provisioning, builds, deployments, decommissioning & support infrastructure migration, technology refresh, and modernization projects.
- Perform system-level troubleshooting, log analysis, and performance optimization.
- Support user access management, permissions, and system configuration activities.
- Maintain infrastructure security, OS hardening, and compliance standards.
- Assist with storage, file systems, networking, DNS, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes.
- Support root cause analysis (RCA) and implementation of preventive measures.
- Assist with backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery activities.
- Support automation and scripting using PowerShell, Shell, Python, or Ansible.
- Collaborate with application, database, network, storage, security, and cloud teams.
- Participate in project implementation, testing, cutover, and post-deployment support.
- Maintain SOPs, technical documentation, operational runbooks, and audit evidence.
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving, ownership, teamwork, and ability to balance BAU operations with project deliverables.
Bachelor's degree or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience
10+ years of industry experience with 3+ years of software development experience in Python and Go.
Experience in Java8+ and Spring/Spring Boot frameworks is a plus, but not required
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
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
About the TeamWe back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of industry experience
- 3+ years of software development experience with Python and Go
- Understanding of Linux functionality and features
- Experience with shell scripting
- Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Experience with Ansible automation tools
- Ability to work with IaaS, PaaS, cloud technologies, and continuous delivery tools
- Ability to interpret technical and business objectives and articulate solutions
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Java 8+ and Spring/Spring Boot frameworks
- Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase
American Express Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about American Express and has not been reviewed or approved by American Express.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses are often viewed as strong and materially boost total compensation when combined with benefits. Company-performance bonuses are highlighted as a recurring strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and paid leave are frequently highlighted as strengths within the total rewards package. These policies support work-life balance and contribute meaningfully to overall satisfaction.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are frequently mentioned as a positive component of the package. These offerings add tangible value beyond base salary.
American Express Insights
What We Do
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 striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together.
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