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

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 seeking skilled, proactive, and enthusiastic engineers who are passionate about tackling challenges and are adept at problem-solving. As a Sr Software Devops Engineer, you will join a team of professionals focused on constructing and maintaining enterprise-level CI/CD pipelines. Your responsibilities will include infrastructure orchestration, reliability engineering, security, access control, monitoring and tool automation. You will stay updated with the latest advancements in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, reassess architectural decisions, and manage migrations when necessary. We value individuals who are passionate about enhancing processes, reducing inefficiencies in workflows, and enjoy tackling technical challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

The Work itself:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability

• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads

• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology

• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Maintain, expand, and create automated Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.

• Design, implement, and manage reliable build/deployment systems.

• Mentor and support junior team members, providing guidance and feedback to foster their growth.

• Use your problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues, driven by a high level of ownership and curiosity.

• Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development, and code reviews.

• Monitor official builds and drive infrastructure issues towards resolution.

• Write optimised, secure, functional, and scalable code, and fine-tune your results for performance.

• Strive for quality code production, seeking reviews from senior engineers to ensure standard compliance.

• Share knowledge through presentations to the development community and assist others with the knowledge acquired over time.

• Continually seek opportunities for personal growth and contribute to the development processes' improvement within the organisation.

• Generate creative solutions to solve problems.

• Understand the broader picture and prioritise tasks effectively to meet timelines.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, Go, C#, C++)

• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa

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

Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD

Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role, whether with or without direct reports, including mentoring other DevOps.
Hands-on experience with container-based technologies, bash, maven, Jenkins, GitHub actions, docker and Kubernetes.
Java programming and debugging skills, with experience in Java micro-services frameworks.
Good knowledge of SQL, No-SQL databases, and data streaming/queuing technologies like Kafka.
Solid understanding of secure coding practices and expertise in mitigating security vulnerabilities.
Capable of establishing and maintaining robust development conventions and best practices for handling cross-cutting concerns.

Preferred:
Hands-on experience with go, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP etc), helm, ansible

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.