Staff SW Engineer (DevOps, 6+ years)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science or engineering
• Twelve or more years of hands on experience in the software industry in infrastructure and Devops
• Should have hands on experience and strong expertise with DevOps tools and automation frameworks
• Responsible for provisioning and supporting engineering applications and environments with a focus on faster provisioning, reliability and consistency
• Experience with source control tools such as GIT and Bitbucket
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
• Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker, DTR and Kubernetes
• Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages such as Unix Shell, Perl or Python
• Working experience in cloud computing, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service and related areas is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef and container platforms such as Docker is highly preferred
• Experience with enterprise high availability platforms
• Knowledge and experience with Linux operating systems
• Should have working experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, OPNET, SPLUNK or any other monitoring tools and processes
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Strong automation and problem solving skills with the ability to follow through to completion
• Experience in implementing machine learning operations and DevSecOps
• Ability to strategize generative artificial intelligence adoption wherever applicable within the DEP ecosystem
• Ability to promote DevOps best practices

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

1. A thought leader who is instrumental in Devops technology transformation and productivity engineering

2. Lead cross functional global teams in design development and implementation of enterprise scalable features related to enabling higher developer productivity environment monitoring and self healing and facilitate autonomous delivery teams

3. Responsible for technically mentoring and grooming the PD teams to deliver high quality work through a Devops mindset

4. Responsible for managing various stakeholders like PD RM Performance engineering Operations and Infrastructure teams

5. Responsible for setting up high standard goals for the engineers in alignment with organizational goals and helping the teams to achieve them

6. Responsible for daily activities of Release Engineering and Devops This will include but not be limited to CI and CD implementation creating environments on physical and virtual platforms troubleshooting OS and third party application issues deploying installing configuring proprietary software monitoring hardware usage and performance as it applies to the environments and assisting in gathering of metrics to forecast future growth needs

7. Be part of strategic discussions and work closely with leadership teams to implement the defined strategies for improving developer productivity by building tools, utilities and processes.

8. Lead the DEP DPT teams strategic efforts working on all three layers of the stack related to infrastructure middleware and continuous integration and delivery frameworks

9. Provide needed technical support to technical teams within Visa to support the implementation of modifications and or new Devops solutions

10. Support the implementation of new programs and subprograms as well as enhancements modifications and corrections to existing software

11. Troubleshoot and conduct root cause analysis to address routine to moderately complex reporting issues with accuracy or performance

12. Will operate as a technical expert on infrastructure projects pertaining to AI and ML adoption containerization systems management design and architecture

13. Perform analysis and optimization monitoring and problem resolution tool upgrade planning and execution and process creation and documentation

14. Responsible for analyzing workloads and application inventories to determine optimal utilization patterns Analyze and work to ensure infrastructure technologies are adequately tested and integrated with other Infrastructure and Application Services

15. Define and evolve Build and Release best practice by working within teams and educating the other stakeholder teams These best practices should support traceability and auditability of change and increase release frequency for DEP teams

16. Ensure continuous availability of various tools supporting SCM and Release Management including Source Control Continuous Integration and Change Management

17. Design build and maintain a worldclass Dev metrics portal which would help measure developer related productivity and drive transformation

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.