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American Express Senior DevOps Engineer in Carson City, Nevada
Description
“You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.
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 redefining what’s possible - and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.”
You won’t just shape the world of software.
You’ll shape the world of life, work and play.
Our Software Engineers not only understand how technology works, but how that technology intersects with the people who count on it every day. Today, innovative ideas, insight and new perspectives are at the core of how we create a more powerful, personal and fulfilling experience for all our customers. So if you’re interested in a career creating breakthrough software and making an impact on an audience of millions, look no further.
You won’t just keep up, you’ll break new ground.
In this role, you will join the Developer Platform team within DX. You will partner with your small team to learn the business cases our engineers must account for, and partner with teams across the enterprise, educating and helping when possible, and assisting by building tools where the expertise may not already exist at an appropriate level somewhere in the company. As part of this process, you will also gain experience with what it looks like to help guide multiple business units toward a common goal.
On any given day, you might:
Writing code and unit tests, working with API specs and automation
Build a new tool or framework to improve our developer platforms
Help build and vet concrete approaches to organization-wide requirements
Participate in cross-team meetings, contributing ideas and voting on options when appropriate
Take a class or read a book to learn something new
Qualifications
Requirements for this position:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
Experience working on a software engineering team and contributing expertise in areas of your subject matter expertise
Familiarity with DevOps theory and practice, including concepts such as continuous deployment, 12-factor app, and infrastructure-as-code
Demonstrable communications skills.
Experience using and building version controlled (in-repository) CI/CD pipelines on modern tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, etc.
Bonus points for experience with:
Directly using and building GitHub Actions
Information Security (AuthN/Z, IAM), especially in a banking environment
Kubernetes, especially with an understanding of how it works
Deploying and operating traditional VM or mainframe workloads
Modern distributed software observability
Community involvement (open source or other open contributions)
Working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members
Also critical to your success:
Appetite for trying new things
Staying up to date on technology trends and developer sentiments
Able to influence without authority and work together with peers and more-senior leadership roles
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.
Job: Technology
Primary Location: United States
Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-California-Palo Alto, US-New York-New York, US-Florida-Sunrise
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 21005259
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