Sr. SW Engineer - DevOps- 4 yrs

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for an innovative, capable DevOps Engineer working closely with internal products’ development teams. The person will also be responsible for overseeing end-to-end scoping, implementation, and working closely with the development and Service design teams to deliver a quality product as required.

The Work itself: 

• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure, middleware, and continuous integration and delivery frameworks.
• Provide level 1 and 2 technical support and troubleshoot issues in release builds and deployments.
• Set up and support applications on physical, virtual, and container platforms, and troubleshoot OS and release issues.
• Manage and operate release processes, builds, deployments, and DevOps tools.
• Utilize tools such as Jenkins, JIRA, GIT, Maven, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, and RHEL.
• Define and evolve build and release best practices, ensuring traceability and auditability of changes.
• Ensure continuous availability of various applications, environments, and tools supporting SCM and release management, including source control, containerization, and continuous integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in release activities to enhance developer productivity.
• Identify opportunities for automation to improve developer productivity and efficiency.
• Create automation utilities to streamline processes and reduce manual effort.
• Suggest and implement improvements to team members to optimize workflows and reduce effort.
• Provide support for lower and stage environments and address issues in production as needed.

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

Basic Qualifications:
2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
•3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
•Hands-on and good understanding of Release Engineering and DevOps tools.
•Experienced with one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell, Groovy, Python.
•Expertise in CI/CD process implementation and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
•Knowledge of Source Control Tools such as GIT and Bitbucket.
•Working experience in Containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
•Strong working knowledge and experience with Linux OS.
•Knowledge of various security certificates technology.
•Experience on Enterprise High Availability Platforms.
•Strong desire to support development teams in fixing issues.
•Basic middleware knowledge (e.g., Apache, Nginx, Tomcat).

NOTE: Problem solving skills will be thoroughly tested during the interview phases. There will be an online test too.

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.