Associate - CyberOps & Assurance

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. The External Attack Surface Management team protects American Express by identifying, investigating, and reducing risk across our Internet-facing environment. This role combines technical investigation, threat analysis, infrastructure research, customer engagement, and incident response to better understand how external technologies can be identified, targeted, and exploited. The ideal candidate is naturally curious, enjoys solving unfamiliar technical problems, and is energized by understanding how complex systems work. They are comfortable researching emerging threats, investigating ambiguous technical issues, and partnering across engineering organizations to drive meaningful risk reduction. Success in this role comes from asking questions, following technical breadcrumbs, and the curiosity to investigate problems that do not have established playbooks.