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About American Express Enterprise Cloud Engineering Team :
American Express Enterprise Cloud team provides comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express. EC offers fast-paced rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Code, Database-as-a-Service, Analytics-as-a-Service, Messaging-as-a-Service, CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Enterprise Cloud Engineering enables application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.
Job Description :
As a Software Engineer for Quality Engineering team of Enterprise Cloud, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability and performance of our Platform-as-a-Service at American Express in private and public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement best practices, automate operations, and drive continuous improvement in our platform Infrastructure. This role requires pro-active problem-solving skill to identify the issue before they impact production environments. You will also contribute to the continuous improvement of the platform by driving best practices and ensuring robust quality controls are in place.
Responsibilities :
- Define Quality standards and performance benchmarks for the platform components
- Collaborate with the product managers, developers and platform devOps teams to understand the requirement and build effective test plans
- Continuously improve test automation frameworks to handle new platform feature and upgrades
- Develop API libraries that can be used by QE team to extend the integration testing for various cloud platform integration workflows (i.e. PaaS, IaaS, DBaaS, xPaaS, CI / CD, Network, etc)
- Integrate test automation with Jenkins, GitHub, GitHubAction and execute regression tests on nightly build
- Experience with CI / CD and project management tools (e.g. Git, GHA, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence)
- Identify and troubleshoot platform bottlenecks and issues in the platform’s performance
- Monitor and ensure platform availability, stability and performance metrics meet predefined SLA’s
- Perform security and compliance testing to identify vulnerabilities and areas of risk
- Automate the testing for the Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters to ensure scalability and security using the testing frameworks
- Ensure the reliability and performance of the service discovery, loadBalancing and traffic routing within the mesh
- Test and validate Istio, gloo-mesh, service Mesh configurations, traffic policies and security features
- Collaborate with SRE and Platform Engineering teams to integrate observability tooling, such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus into the testing platforms
- Design and Implement automated test cases to validate container orchestration, networking and service-Mesh integration
- Conduct load, stress, resiliency and performance tests on OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on On-prem and Public Cloud to ensure that they handle the scale and load effectively
Minimum Qualifications :
Have knowledge or with hands-on-experience on :
Nice to Have :
At the core of Software Engineering :
Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including :
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 :
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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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Salary : $110,000 - $190,000
