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.
How will you make an impact in this role?
Infrastructure Operations
- Operating System and Container/Image patching.
- Platform Deployment
- Log Forwarding & resource configurations
- Certificate Management
- Alerting & Monitoring
- Vulnerability Management
- Role based access control configurations.
- Kubernetes cluster and virtual hosting support.
- Kubernetes technology stack deployment.
Leadership
- Demonstrate increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.
- Influence colleagues with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.
- Working with other colleagues within the Application Security organization, supporting various technology deployments.
Minimum Qualifications
Up to 3 years of software development experience in a professional environment and/or comparable experience such as:
- Hands-on experience managing Linux-based infrastructure, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (k8s) administration and orchestration.
- In-depth knowledge of RHEL system administration (versions 7,8, or later).
- Proficiency in Linux scripting (Bash, Python, or other scripting languages).
- Experience deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or cloud).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes resources like pods, deployments, services, secrets, config maps, etc.
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Experience creating and managing container images and registries.
- Understanding of container networking, security, and storage.
- Knowledge in Kubernetes networking (CNI plugins like Calico)
- Experience with setting up ingress controllers and service meshes (e.g. Istio).
- Experience with Kubernetes storage solutions (persistent volumes, storage classes, dynamic provisioning).
- Familiarity with NFS, Ceph, or other distributed storage solutions used in Kubernetes environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, network policies, pod security policies).
- Experience managing container and Kubernetes security (e.g. vulnerability scanning, securing container images).
- Understanding of firewalls and securing Linux systems (SELinux, firewallD, iptables)
- Proficiency in Kubernetes-compatible CICD tools like Helm and Argo.
Preferred Qualifications
- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA, CKAS, CKAD)
- Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA, RHCE)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud Kubernetes environments (e.g. OpenShift)
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture and components (ETCD, API server, controllers, schedulers, kubelet, etc).
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS,VPN, Load Balancing)
- Strong experience with Docker or other container runtimes.
Salary Range: $70,000.00 to $135,000.00 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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