Cybersecurity Architect II

At American Express our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation shared values and Leadership Behaviors and an unwavering commitment to back our customers communities and colleagues. As part of Team Amex youll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills develop as a leader and grow your career.

Here your voice and ideas matter your work makes an impact and together you will help us define the future of American Express.

Summary
American express is seeking Senior Network Security Engineer with deep expertise in cloud networking zero trust security and hybrid/multi-cloud architectures with proven ability to design secure and automate highly available cloud network environments while reducing risk and operational overhead. Recognized for strong analytical problem-solving cross-functional collaboration and delivering secure-by-design solutions at scale.

What Youll Be Doing

• Design and evolve secure cloud network architectures across AWS Azure and GCP in alignment with security standards and business requirements.
• Implement tune and maintain Palo Alto Security Group and GCP firewall policies balancing security controls with application performance and usability.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules to standardize cloud network security deployments.
• Embed network security controls into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions enabling consistent automated and auditable deployments.
• Partner with application platform and security teams to influence secure design decisions early in the development lifecycle.
• Perform regular security posture reviews of network configurations and firewall rules identifying gaps and driving remediation efforts.
• Create and maintain clear documentation reference architectures and standards to support scalable and repeatable network security practices.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and securing AWS VPCs Azure Virtual Networks and GCP VPCs including subnet architecture routing NAT gateways private endpoints and security enforcement using cloud-native controls.
• Experience implementing and operating AWS Direct Connect Azure ExpressRoute and GCP Cloud Interconnect to support secure hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity.
• Specialized in deploying cloud firewalls WAFs DDoS protection and Zero Trust access models to protect workloads APIs and users.
• Demonstrated proficiency in cloud-native networking and security controls across AWS Azure and GCP including segmentation identity-aware access and traffic inspection.
• AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• VPC/VNet architecture subnet design routing NAT gateways private endpoints
• Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity (site-to-site VPN cloud interconnects)
• Palo Alto Networks AWS Security Groups GCP Firewall Rules
• Firewall policy design threat prevention IPS/IDS SSL/TLS inspection
• Zero Trust networking least-privilege access network segmentation
• Terraform for multi-cloud infrastructure and security controls
• GitHub for source control and collaboration
• Core networking fundamentals: TCP/IP BGP routing VPN technologies

• Logging and monitoring fundamentals (firewall logs flow logs SIEM integration)

Preferred Qualifications

• GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation security checks and policy enforcement
• Load balancing (L4/L7) traffic segmentation high availability design
• Identity and access integration with network security controls

• Linux fundamentals and scripting for automation support

Certification and Training:

• CCNA- Cisco Certified Network Associate
• AWS - Aws Certified DevOps Engineer
• GCP - Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Salary Range: $89250.00 to $150250.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical financial and mental health as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents regardless of gender offered for pregnancy adoption or surrogacy
• 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

For a full list of Team Amex benefits visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive professionally and personally. Thats why we have Amex Flex our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will either work onsite in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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