Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers' digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Millions of customers depend on our infrastructure, we depend on you.

The success of our entire company rests on our systems, storage, and people. Our Infrastructure engineers know that delivering on that promise takes a robust, scalable and efficient infrastructure. So if you're an expert on infrastructure and know the value of supporting technology and the people who depend on it, build your career here.

How will you make an impact in this role?

The best infrastructure isn't built in a day or even a year and it's certainly not built without a team. The ideal candidate will have a system engineering background and an innovative mindset of using software to solve problems. Here's just some of what you'll do:

· Build a program to support a 4 year plan to design, plan and build a new data center and associated infrastructure

· Work with platform and migration teams to design migration methods, schedule migrations and execute migrations between data centers

· Work with partners to create an application/platform and hardware roadmap to define what will be migrated to a new data center and create/manage migration/uplift plans for applications/platforms and hardware that will not move to the new data center

· Knowledge on multiple datacenter technologies such as backup, configuration management, etc.

· Strong storage and networking skills

· Knowledge of new enterprise technologies

· Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies

· Proven expertise on building/deploying/architecting virtualized solutions at Enterprise scale

· Strong working knowledge on one or more hardware platforms - Exposure to HW life cycle include from Build/Operation/Maintain/Decommission

· Deep knowledge on one or more Operating Systems - Windows/Linux/VMWARE

· Working knowledge on Public Cloud solutions

· Automate day to day tasks using scripting

· Enhance framework for onboarding new Enterprise solutions in line with AXP Security guidelines

· Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other storage/compute solutions systems and platforms within the supported domains

· Partner with various teams and stakeholders to drive project governance & Operational readiness

· Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technology in solving existing needs

· Maintain relation with product vendors and influence road map

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor's Degree in a related engineering field desired

· At least 4-6 years of working knowledge of HW Platforms - Dell/Cisco

· At least 5-6 years of working knowledge on VMWARE

· Strong data center, networking and storage skills

· At least 2-3 years of working knowledge on Windows/Linux

· Knowledge on scripting such as Python/PowerShell/etc

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 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 work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days).

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