Software Engineer III

Role overview

Software Engineer III at American Express

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Java- and Python-based services, APIs, integrations, and automation for infrastructure platforms.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, mentoring, and process improvement.

Required qualifications

• 10-12 years of relevant experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related technology domain.
• Software engineering
• Strong experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production-grade services and automation solutions.
• Java: Strong hands-on development skills in Java, including APIs, object-oriented design, debugging, and maintainable coding practices.
• Python: Strong Python skills for automation, API integrations, orchestration, tooling, and microservice development.
• Infrastructure knowledge: Demonstrated understanding of enterprise compute, storage, operating systems, virtualization, provisioning, monitoring, security, and change-management practices.
• VMware and provisioning: Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, virtual machines, provisioning workflows, VM templates, golden images, image lifecycle management, and security or vulnerability scans.
• Networking: Strong understanding of VLANs, subnets, DNS, TCP/IP, routing fundamentals, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Automation: Hands-on experience with Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), playbooks, inventories, roles, workflows, and infrastructure automation.
• Data platforms: Working knowledge of SQL and PostgreSQL, including schema fundamentals, queries, integrations, and operational troubleshooting.
• Containers: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift, containerized workloads, deployments, services, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• DevOps: Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions or Jenkins, secure delivery practices, and automated testing.
• Collaboration: Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Employment details

• Location: Gurugram [HR] [India]

Application details

• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, operating-system, virtualization, database, and network layers.

Additional role details

• This is a technical role responsible for designing, developing, automating, and supporting enterprise infrastructure platforms and services.
• The engineer will combine software development expertise with hands-on infrastructure knowledge to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions across virtualized, containerized, and data-center environments.
• Engineer and support end-to-end virtual-machine provisioning workflows, including template and golden-image creation, validation, security scanning, release, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Automate infrastructure operations through Ansible and AAP using reusable playbooks, roles, inventories, and workflows.
• Integrate provisioning solutions with VMware, network services, DNS, databases, security tooling, and enterprise platforms.
• Develop and maintain Kubernetes-based workloads, deployment artifacts, configuration, and operational controls.
• Apply secure engineering, vulnerability remediation, compliance, observability, resilience, and change-management practices.
• Minimum