Infrastructure Engineer III
American Express11 hours ago
Phoenix, AZ, USASenior
Base Salary
$104k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with application, cloud, and platform engineering teams to understand workloads, architectures, infrastructure requirements, and cloud-adoption barriers.
- Assess architectures, identify gaps, design target-state solutions, build prototypes, and support implementation as a hands-on solutions architect.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering approaches to accelerate infrastructure configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, and operations.
- Build AI-powered tools and automation for infrastructure configuration, environment understanding, troubleshooting, and developer self-service.
- Develop reusable cloud patterns, reference implementations, automation, tools, and platform capabilities across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and enterprise platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex application and infrastructure issues across cloud services, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, telemetry, configuration, and deployment pipelines.
- Help teams implement cloud-native compute, container, serverless, storage, networking, API, and event-driven architectures.
- Partner with security, network engineering, SRE, operations, FinOps, and platform teams to meet security, reliability, scalability, and cost requirements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, solutions engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or troubleshooting solutions on AWS, GCP, Azure, or comparable public cloud platforms.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture and infrastructure concepts including compute, containers, networking, storage, identity, security, and observability.
- Experience with Kubernetes, APIs, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, or developer platforms.
- Software engineering experience in at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools or building practical AI-powered automation.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar applications and infrastructure, identify constraints, troubleshoot across boundaries, and work from discovery through production readiness.
- Preferred experience includes multi-cloud engineering, solutions engineering or architecture, forward-deployed engineering, cloud migration, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, cloud networking, IAM, observability, SRE practices, AI-driven automation, reusable cloud patterns, developer self-service, or regulated environments.
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries and bonus incentives.
- 6% company retirement savings match, financial coaching, and financial well-being support.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite, or virtual arrangements depending on the role and business need.
- 20+ weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Access to onsite wellness centers, confidential counseling through Healthy Minds, and career development and training opportunities.
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About American Express
American Express builds a global payments network and issues consumer, small-business, and corporate cards, plus merchant acquiring and travel services. Revenue comes from card fees, interest and lending, discount/merchant fees, and network services. Founded in 1850 and headquartered in New York City, it operates the Amex acceptance network worldwide and offers co-branded cards and membership rewards across millions of cardmembers and merchants; ticker NYSE: AXP.