Job Description

:You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, youll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact every colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together, well win as a team, striving to uphold our and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.Focus:Responsible for the day to day Operations Center for Digital Workplace Collaborations in India. Actively provide support to a 24/7/365 working team of people. Will work to provide robust, standardized, scalable and efficient support across a vast range of products used by virtual and hybrid working front and back office Colleagues across the globe.Will work with a variety of collaboration Product teams and Engineer leads to identify the support needs, including analysis of application and technical infrastructure requirements as well as monitoring needs. Will support initiatives that deliver end-to-end support that align with AXP Technology standards and deliver highest availability through the latest observability and availability practices. Responsible to provide technical knowledge through fostering growth and development.Organizational Context:Member of an infrastructure engineering team reporting to an Engineering Director. Will share operations responsibility with other team members to support a 24/7/365 collaborations team. Will be an extended member of product and operations engineering team.Role to be based in Gurgaon.Key Responsibilities:Engineering:

• Maintain customer and employee relations and perceptions towards the Collaboration Operations team
• Will work in a rotational on-call shift pattern as required to provide 24/7/365 support to the Operations team and our AXP Colleagues
• Perform on-call support functions
• Frequent partnership touchpoints with lead managers and engineers across the Collaborations organization
• Support the engineering teams product and infrastructure changes
• Identify and implement observability and availability solutions
• Partner with product managers and engineers to identify prioritization of operations needs
• Ensure operations technical documents are created, centralized and maintained up-to-date
• Provide internal analysis and support to ensure proper focus during outages or periods of degraded system performance
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Create baseline key performance indicators, define operations metrics
• Assess, analyze, develop, document and implement changes based on operations needs
• Ensure knowledge and adherence of the change management process

Scope of Impact and Influence:

• Responsible for the infrastructure and product supportability
• Accountable to team for completing work youre leading and deliverables as agreed upon
• Accountable to team for delivery of quality work

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience with systems analysis/programming, incorporating design methodology, Infrastructure operations support or engineering.
• Hands-on experience with a variety of software languages, operating systems, or network protocols
• Appreciation of Agile or other rapid application development methodology
• Bachelors Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required; advanced degree preferred
• Understanding of the ITSM process
• Ability to work with Engineers, Product Vendors to identify root cause and short/long term fixes

Knowledge/Skills:

• Telecom, SIP, VOIP experience, Cisco voice
• Specific technical experience working with one or more of the following areas: VMWare, Unix, Citrix, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Z/OS, Junos, IOS, etc.
• Some knowledge of platform delivery methodology (Agile, Scrum, Agile XP, TestDriven Development, Waterfall, etc.)
• Some Cisco Collaboration Tools knowledge (WebEx, Video Endpoints, Jabber, Spaces, Calling)
• Some experience /knowledge of monitoring solutions: ThousandEyes, Grafana, Prognosis, etc.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

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