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# Software Engineer II

- **Company:** American Express Company
- **Location:** Springfield, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Containerization, Deployment Automation
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f0296a69-0cfd-4ad1-9a2b-d9a555460f0a

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience in cloud, systems, network and tool administration (bonus: knowledge and experience in AWS tech stack and services)
 * Knowledge of DevOps toolchain: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, automation and configuration management
 * Managing monitoring tools
 * Troubleshooting and support for infrastructure and DevOps and application
 * Experience working with a DevOps mindset (ship it as you would run it)
 * Working in an international, distributed team
 * Excellent English (C1) is a prerequisite, German, Japanese, Chinese a plus

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

## Description

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company's growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex's customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights, * You will design, develop, test, debug and maintain application environments in a highly automated way. To do this you will use tools and scripts to automate deployment and monitor systems, with guidance and within a blueprint that the engineer enriches.

 * As part of an agile team, install, maintain, and optimize tools and infrastructure to support our internal and customer related projects
 * Keep operational topics and security in mind
 * Interact with internal and external colleagues based at our German and Polish subsidiaries
 * With expertise in operations, cloud, network, and monitoring, shape the continuous development of our SaaS platform and product landscape
 * Develop new solutions in the area of infrastructure and tool operations and monitoring and being responsible for implementing them independently
 * Support projects with expertise, analyze problems in the team, and drive optimizations
 * Independently acquire knowledge of new tools and technologies and evaluate if they are suitable and economical for our projects
 * Actively drive topics, always having the goal in mind and accepting challenges


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