Cloud Engineer

Phoenix, AZ, United States

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About American Express Cloud Engineering:

American Express Cloud Engineering provides a comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express. Cloud Engineering offers dynamic rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, DB-as-a-Service, Analytics-as-a-Service, Messaging-as-a-Service, CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Cloud Engineering enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.

American Express is embarking on an exciting Hybrid Cloud transformation journey and is in search of an innovative and critical thinking engineers to build our Hybrid Cloud Platform.

About this Role and Responsibilities

This position will report into the PaaS API/UI & Orchestration Cloud Engineering team.

In this API engineer role, you will be part of a talented team responsible for building scalable, secure, and highly available Cloud based Services within our Hybrid based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), while also gaining experience and getting exposure to many other open source products as required.

Your primary responsibilities will be to develop technical solutions to enhance the American Express Hybrid Cloud platform, with a focus on building automation for highly scalable cloud services delivery.

Collaborate with the rest of the API engineering team, the UI engineering team, quality engineering tam and product management to build scalable high performant quality API and Orchestration solutions.

Research and apply recent technology and libraries that enable lean product development.

Implement API/Middleware solutions which integrates with NSQL, platforms, partners systems

Protect APIs with security integrations like Okta, SSO, mTLS, HashiCorp Vault etc.

Implement the best software practices that produce maintainable code, including usability patterns, code style conformity, integration, unit testing, and code review.

Willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in how fast they develop working software

Qualifications

Preferably a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

3+ years of experience with any Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Private Cloud)

6+ years of experience in developing REST APIs using Googles GoLang and/or Java.

6+ years of experience with any cloud engineering, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker etc.

Standout colleague. Good communication skills.

Deep understanding of REST principle as a provider and consumer.

Strong experience with any NSQL databases (CouchBase and ETCD is preferable)

Deep understanding of security integrations Okta, mTLS, SSO, HashiCorop Vault etc.

Deep understanding of API Gateways, their functions.

Experience with any of the Container Orchestration technologies Kubernetes, Openshift etc.

Deep understanding of CI/CD process and tools like Git, Docker, Jenkins, Spinnaker, XL Release etc.

Successful track record of developing middleware solutions, with a strong focus on code quality, unit testing, integration testing, code quality analysis tools and API (Swagger) documentation.

Familiar with agile application development methods. Understanding of QE processes in general.

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.

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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