Director - Cloud Platform Engineering - American Express - Palo Alto

Job description
American Express is embarking on an exciting transformation driven by an energetic new team of high performers. This group is nimble and creative with the power to shape our technology and product roadmap. If you have the talent and desire to deliver innovative payment products and services at a rapid pace, serving our customers seamlessly across physical, digital, mobile, and social media, join our transformation team!


Software Engineers that join our Technologies team can be assigned to one of several exciting teams that are developing new mainframe payment solutions, customer service portals, credit management tools, data services and suites of web-based applications for merchants which span over 50 international countries.

Ever wondered what it takes to build a highly available, global scale enterprise wide private Paas/Iaas cloud platform with an Open Source technology stack and to achieve up-times SLA of Amazon, Google and Force.com?

Then you should consider this innovative and disruptive opportunity where you can be a key transformative contributor to a rock star engineering team which will deliver the next generation enterprise application platform (PaaS/IaaS) for American Express.

In this role, you will lead the experiences in building vision, platform, engineering team and technology of a scalable, secure, Highly available infrastructure and platform-as-a-service (PaaS/IaaS) by using a variety of technologies such as OpenStack and OpenShift and get exposure to open source projects such as Google Kubernetes, Google Go, Docker and Vagrant, Hadoop 2.0, Spark, Storm.

You will work with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Node.js and Fuse to enable mobile payment, web application and analytic developments. You will work with best Continuous Integration and Continuous Deploy tools to automate integration of Continuous delivery with IaaS/PaaS

Furthermore, you will lead the team and contribute to build developer and devOps friendly tools that allow monitoring, diagnosing and debugging of the platform services and its hosted applications and you will design and implement a continuous platform delivery release model which enables high availability of services during platform releases and upgrades.
• Owns technical aspects of software development
• Performs hands-on cloud scale architecture, design and development of systems
• Hire talent and retain them. Build, manage and lead a team of highly talented software engineers
• Develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms
• Writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Provides continuous support for ongoing application availability
• Works closely with product owners on feature sets that impact multiple platforms and products
• Works with product owners to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development in anyone :Java, Python, node.js
• 5+ years of Linux experience, ideally contributed to open source projects
• Experience with design and implementation of distributed applications
• Familiar with agile or other rapid application development methods (Continuous Delivery)
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and to articulate solutions
• Ability to think abstractly and deal with problems
• Ability to enable business capabilities through innovation
• Looks proactively beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, and takes pride in how fast they develop working software
• Bachelor's in CS required. Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience, is preferred

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