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 looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Staff Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. We are seeking a skilled DevOps Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and scripting languages. This role involves working closely with our development and operations teams to streamline our software development and deployment processes.
The Work itself:
- Support critical applications and ensure their stability by performing proactive maintenance activities, engaging in automation activities, and conducting root cause analysis and remediation.
- Write and maintain scripts to monitor system activity, including application smoke test activities during production implementations.
- Develop and maintain automation tools to handle all engineering and application support tasks.
- Engage in production issue troubleshooting bridge calls, provide immediate service restoration, follow up on root cause analysis, and ensure the permanent fix is implemented to avoid similar problems in the future.
- Coordinate and execute application releases and production deployments
- Develop and manage containerization solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automate configuration management and deployment processes with Ansible.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications.
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
- Identifies and contributes to the development and solution strategies for team members to improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features under minimal guidance.
- Applies standard processes using programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
- Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
- Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.
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, 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
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.
Note: Please be advised that Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this position. Candidates must be located in or willing to commute to the Atlanta, GA area for this hybrid role.
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
- 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
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (5) years experience in a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience.
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.
- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 110,800.00 to 160,550.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
