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Accertify Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express and a leader in providing software, tools and strategies for preventing online fraud and mitigating enterprise-wide risks. Accertify is committed to providing e-commerce companies with comprehensive and cost-effective solutions to fraud.
We are seeking a strong DevOps Engineer with Linux and Middleware Administration experience for our DevOps Automation Engineer role. The DevOps Automation Engineer is responsible for the technical design, deployment, monitoring and ongoing support and maintenance of a diverse set of cloud and on-prem technologies. The role is a technical, hands-on opportunity with a heavy focus on automation, resilient design and deployment of cloud ready systems and services. This is a DevOps position, responsible for the full-stack engineering and support of products that support our hybrid cloud capabilities.
As a DevOps Automation Engineer at Accertify, you will take responsibility for new applications going into production to ensure operational excellence (Availability, latency, performance, efficiency, problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning). You will participate in anything that prevents a system/app from serving its' intended purpose, including slowness or outage, to understand how we can improve Time to Detect, Time to Fix, and Time to Mitigate issues. You will improve our monitoring solutions and define SLIs/SLOs and develop automated solutions using a variety of coding languages.
Our DevOps team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. DevOps automation engineers create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics.
Responsibilities: - Contributes to the design, build and maintenance of modern cloud platforms that support agile teams
- Partners with key stakeholders as a platform champion for cloud-native systems, and coaches on how to use platform capabilities effectively through appropriate venues
- Drives continuous improvement of cloud and on-premise products & capabilities though internal user groups and external market research
- Driving innovation and platform evolution, Scaling cloud infrastructure to support our growing ecosystem
- Provide reliable, predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems Adhering to security best practices
- Writing and designing automation, monitoring, diagnostics and debug tooling to improve troubleshooting and recovery
- Participating in production support and on-call rotations
- Conducting incident management and contribute to associated retrospective/post mortem as needed
- Responsible for the Stability and Performance of critical Business Services
- Participating in Agile Sprints and associated ceremonies
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
Required Experience & Skills: - Minumum of 2 years of DevOps or Application engineer experience.
- 2 years of Cloud-based and on-premise application deployment/support
- Deep understanding of Ansible.
- Tomcat or any J2EE compliant middleware experience.
- Amazon EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, and Cloudwatch experience
- Experience with Python or shell scripting languages. Python preferred.
- Knowledge and understading of Splunk is a plus
- Kubernetes and Docker experience required
Why American Express?
There's a difference between having a job and making a difference.
Amex have been making a difference in people's lives for over 160 years, backing them in moments big and small, granting access, tools, and resources to take on their biggest challenges and reap the greatest rewards.
We've also made a difference in the lives of our people, providing a culture of learning and collaboration, and helping them with what they need to succeed and thrive. We have their backs as they grow their skills, conquer new challenges, or even take time to spend with their family or community. And when they're ready to take on a new career path, we're right there with them, giving them the guidance and momentum into the best future they envision.
Because we believe that the best way to back our customers is to back our people.
The powerful backing of American Express.
Don't make a difference without it.
Don't live life without it.
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