Azure Engineer

American Express; Rock Hill (SC); On-site; USD 72,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express, based in Rock Hill, SC, seeks a mid-level Azure Engineer who enjoys ownership and fast-paced delivery. The role focuses on Grafana-driven performance gains, Splunk fixes, and cloud-native migration across on-prem and cloud infrastructures.

With 5+ years in tech, you will lead initiatives, document clearly, and present to a regional audience. Expect a competitive salary and a flexible, initiative-friendly culture in Rock Hill.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technology experience.
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives.
• Clarity of thought with tidy documentation.
• Comfort presenting to a SC-wide audience.
• A SC sensibility or genuine curiosity about this market.

Responsibilities

• Land Grafana performance wins American Express can measure in SC retention numbers
• Pair-program tricky Emotional Intelligence edge cases with engineers across Rock Hill, SC
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Ship Splunk fixes to American Express customers in Rock Hill, SC the same day they report them
• Carry the Grafana platform work that makes American Express's next SC expansion boring
• Pull Google Cloud Platform telemetry into dashboards American Express leaders actually open
• Lead the Prioritization migration that finally retires American Express's flat-and-fast legacy stack
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture

Skills

Leadership

Documentation

Public speaking

SC market awareness

5+ years in tech

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

American Express runs lean, deploys often, and now needs a mid-level Azure Engineer who finds that combination exciting rather than terrifying. The whole arrangement rewards initiative — $72,000 - $111,000 to start, technology ownership throughout, and American Express backing every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Land Grafana performance wins American Express can measure in SC retention numbers
• Pair-program tricky Emotional Intelligence edge cases with engineers across Rock Hill, SC
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Ship Splunk fixes to American Express customers in Rock Hill, SC the same day they report them
• Carry the Grafana platform work that makes American Express's next SC expansion boring
• Pull Google Cloud Platform telemetry into dashboards American Express leaders actually open
• Lead the Prioritization migration that finally retires American Express's flat-and-fast legacy stack
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture

What You'll Bring

• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• Comfort presenting to a SC-wide audience without a script
• A SC sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market
• Around 5+ years of hands-on experience in a technology role

American Express sits at the intersection of Prioritization and Splunk, quietly powering technology workflows from its Rock Hill base. We keep our process light so engineers can spend their energy on CI/CD and Prioritization, not bureaucracy.

The offer reads $72,000 - $111,000, plus the soft stuff that hard-wins loyalty: coaching, coverage, and a flexible freelance rhythm.

This minute, the Azure Engineer chair sits empty and the search is on.