Job Description
The Legato Programme at American Express is focused on bringing public cloud to the company in a manner that is safe, compliant. flexible, and easy to use. We are looking for experienced engineers to join our team and help us achieve our goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and Design: Lead the design and of reference architectures and reference applications for multiple patterns in each public cloud hosting provider, eg. message-driven, simple web application, batch.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers. fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Customization and Flexibility: Develop solutions that allow for flexibility and customization to support more advanced users.
- Infrastructure Provisioning: Enable developers to provision public cloud infrastructure in 10 minutes or less, ensuring regulatory compliance and auditability as standard
- Decommissioning: Develop processes to enable developers to repeatably and reliably decommission infrastructure.
- Ephemeral Environments: Create short-lived ephemeral environments for integration testing and product demonstrations.
- Cost Management: Implement transparent and simple cost management solutions for engineering teams.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of cloud services.
Required Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Experience with AWS services and architecture.
- Golang: Proficiency in Golang for building Terraform modules/providers, cloud-native applications, and infrastructure components.
- Kubernetes: Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Cloud Networking: Experience with cloud networking concepts and implementation.
- Docker: Knowledge of Docker for containerization and testing
- Testing: Strong background in automated testing and test-driven development.
- End-user Documentation: Ability to create detailed and high-quality end-user documentation.
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum): Experience working in Agile environments, particularly with Scrum
You May Be a Fit If
- You have at least 6 vears of experience working in a professional environment as a software engineer.
- You have led the design and build of cloud-native applications written in Go.
- You have extensive experience with "DevOps" work, such as building CI/CD pipelines or setting up cloud hosting environments.
- You have a proven track record of mentoring other engineers, helping them to succeed and grow in their roles
- You build effective work relationships, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and your colleagues at all levels and across all teams trust you.
Technologies We Use
- Languages: Go and Java are our primary languages.
- Front-end: Any browser applications are based on React.
- CI/CD: Code lives in GitHub Enterprise and flows to production through a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions.
- Containers: Tenant application code runs in Kubernetes-managed Docker containers hosted in a mix of private and public clouds.
- Terraform: We build infrastructure-as-code tooling by publishing Terraform modules and providers. We manage state and Terraform execution on Terraform Enterprise server.
Job Tags
Flexible hours,