Lead Engineer - Golang, Terraform & AWS

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared 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.

How will you make an impact in this role

The cloud automation team plays a pivotal role in the public cloud adoption journey at Amex. We architect, build and maintain the infrastructure lifecycle automation workflows, and Infrastructure as Code capabilities. The automation team partners closely with product and security teams to drive the cloud strategy, and ensures the public cloud infrastructure provisioned is resilient, secure and cost optimized.

Responsibilities of the Senior Engineer include:

• Design and implement public cloud automation frameworks and solutions.
• Develop custom Terraform providers and modules.
• Implement robust CICD pipelines with security and compliance checks.
• Collaborate across teams, and drive long term infrastructure automation strategy.
• Implement automated solutions for cost monitoring, reporting and optimization.
• Mentor other engineers in the team, conduct code reviews and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide expert level support for complex issues, incidents, problems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of Go Lang hands-on programming experience.
• 3+ years of Terraform experience.
• Strong AWS cloud hands-on experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong cross team collaboration skills
• AWS Associate or Professional level certification
• Terraform Associate certification

We 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.