About the role

What will you do at American Express?

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something

big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career

with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to

work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader

engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success.

Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth

strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s

customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to

ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides

the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation

through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

At American Express, our mission is to deliver the world’s best customer

experience every day. At the heart of this mission is our Information Security

organization, enabling exceptional experiences built on a foundation of trust,

service, and security. We leverage advanced technologies and data-driven

insights to stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape. We foster a culture of

passion, curiosity, and courage—empowering you to innovate, grow, and help shape

the future of a Fortune 100 company.

Trust. Service. Security.

We are seeking a Public Cloud Network Security Engineer to design, secure, and

automate network security capabilities across AWS primarily, with additional

support for GCP. This role will focus on native cloud security controls, Palo

Alto technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD enablement, and policy-driven

guardrails that scale across cloud environments. The ideal candidate combines

strong network security engineering fundamentals with hands-on cloud automation

experience and a working understanding of how generative and agentic AI can

improve security operations, engineering workflows, and risk reduction.

Which skills does this role require?

AWSGCPPalo AltoNetwork SecurityTerraformInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDGitHub ActionsPolicy as CodeGenerative AIAgentic AIFirewallsDNSTLSVPNTraffic InspectionCybersecurityCloud SecurityGitHubRoutingSegmentationIngress/EgressAutomationRisk ReductionSecurity OperationsPrompt EngineeringResponsible AICloud EnvironmentsHybrid EnvironmentsInformation Security

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