Amex Hiring for Infrastructure Engineer at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job 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.
From building next-generation apps and microservices in Kotlin to using AI to help protect our customers from fraud, you could be doing transformational work that brings our iconic, global brand into the future. As a part of our tech team, we could work together to bring ground-breaking and diverse ideas to life that power the digital systems, services, products and platforms that millions of customers around the world depend on. If you love to work with APIs, contribute to open source, or use the latest technologies, we’ll support you with an open environment and learning culture to grow your career.

Focus:
Contributes to analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements. Supports the design, build, improvement and integration of infrastructure required to support the business portfolio or infrastructure platform in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency. Supports initiatives that deliver workable end-to-end infrastructure solutions that enforce to Technology standards.
Organizational Context:
Starter-level experienced hire, member of a product engineering or delivery and integration team reporting to a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Director or Director of Technical Delivery
How will you make an impact in this role?

• Performs core technical aspects to supports infrastructure implementations, deployments and technologies related to dynamic infrastructure platforms
• Participates in current state system analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation
• Supports configuration and implementation deployments
• Contributes to the creation of technical design/implementation documentation
• Supports requirements understanding and issue resolution
• Participates in troubleshooting capacity and availability issues, various moves/adds/changes, server software installation and configuration
• Participates in test planning and execution
• Work with project teams to prepare components for production
• Provide support for ongoing platform infrastructure availability
• Works on prioritized/assigned features for ongoing sprints

Range of Impact/Influence:

• Accountable for team completing work you’re leading and work you are doing as agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

Millions of customers depend on our infrastructure, we depend on you. The success of our entire company rests on our systems, networks, 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 you career here. Build a strong infrastructure and a solid career. The best infrastructure isn’t built in a day or even a year and it’s certainly not built without a team. Here’s just some of what you’ll do: – Contribute to the analysis of business, application, and technical infrastructure requirements. – Design, build, enhance and integrate the infrastructure required to support various platforms and our business portfolio – Support initiatives that deliver workable end-to-end infrastructure solutions – Participates in test planning and execution.
Education & Experience:
Up to 4 years of demonstrated experience with systems analysis/programming, incorporating: design methodology, Infrastructure operations support or engineering.

• Experience with a variety of software languages, operating systems, or network protocols
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred

Knowledge/Skills:

• Specific technical knowledge in one or more of the following areas: VMWare, Unix, Citrix, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Z/OS, Junos, IOS, etc
• Specific knowledge of one or more of the following: infrastructure and server theories, principles, and concepts, application infrastructure and standards, networking fundamentals, storage management (i.e. SAN) design and support, databases (i.e. IMS, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access, etc.), middleware technologies (i.e. WebSphere)
• Understanding of software defined networking, automation and orchestration
• Core understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Core knowledge of platform delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, TestDriven Development, Waterfall, etc.)

Technology Skills You’ll Use Every Day:

• Adaptive Communication
• Agile Practices
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Organizational Change
• Technical Acuity
• Technology Industry Trends

Game Changers:

• Flexibility
• Collaboration & Partnership
• Continuous Improvement
• Courage
• Curiosity
• Resourcefulness
• Servant Leadership
• Tenacity

Role/Strengths You’ll Need:
Technical

• System/Platform Domain Knowledge
• Systems Installation/Decommissioning
• Testing

Functional

• Organizational Change
• IT Infrastructure

Leadership

• Analytical Thinking

Business

• Documentation & Technical Writing
• Problem Solving

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.
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.