Job Description

Company DescriptionVisa 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.Open VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visas Key initiatives that will help Visa support in-country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.Visa is looking for a passionate Devops Engineering leader to lead 8 -10 engineers who are part of Open VisaNet, Visas Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.Senior DevOps leaders with significant experience in building cloud-based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous hands-on design/coding skills for this role.Responsibilities include:xc2xb7 Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering, quality standards & shift left security mindset.xc2xb7 Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.xc2xb7 Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.xc2xb7 Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of teams deliverables.xc2xb7 Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.xc2xb7 Responsible for coaching, managing & mentoring of direct reports.xc2xb7 Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating, mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.xc2xb7 Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components and solutions using core DevSecOps principles.xc2xb7 Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics. Develop all automation rails, as required, for measuring productivity.xc2xb7 Improve DevSecOps maturity in tools and processes and measure them using relevant metrics.xc2xb7 Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable which includes CI/CD practices, pipelines and workflows, leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.xc2xb7 Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery / deployment, continuous observability and release engineering.xc2xb7 Championing & driving application, infrastructure security efforts. Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques. Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.xc2xb7 Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.xc2xb7 Responsible for the stability and high availability of both production and lower environments.xc2xb7 Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve Continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment problemsxc2xb7 Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running.This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.QualificationsQualificationsxc2xb7 15 years IT experience with 5 years people management in the area of DevSecOps.xc2xb7 Experience in implementing DevOps practices and tools to drive environment automationxc2xb7 Hands-on experience in managing enterprise class production systems in public or private cloud environments with Docker and Kubernetes requiredxc2xb7 Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practicesxc2xb7 Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.xc2xb7 Demonstrated hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Jenkins, Docker, Git, Mavenxc2xb7 Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies required.xc2xb7 Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.xc2xb7 Hands on, deep expertise in at least one programming language required, Java or Golang preferredxc2xb7 Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell (bash, ksh), Python, Jenkins/Groovy, Go or similar.xc2xb7 Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally.xc2xb7 Working experience in cloud computing, PaaS, IaaS, and related areas are highly desirablexc2xb7 Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.xc2xb7 Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.xc2xb7 Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is an advantageAdditional InformationVisa 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.

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