Senior Staff Systems Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Engineering and Technology

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Job Description

Passionate about technology, this engineer will be part of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team of systems Engineers responsible for the private cloud environment and associated infrastructure management solutions at Visa especially in designing and deploying Openstack based, multi-hypervisor cloud solutions. In this role you will be accountable for designing and building innovative cloud infrastructure solutions to support a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Solid platform & virtualization knowhow is a must along with experience with open source solutions to encapsulate the infrastructure making it available as code to customers. Knowledge and experience with infrastructure management tools is also a key requirement. Prior experience with Virtualization, Containers and deployment of infrastructure for large enterprises is required. Specific Responsibilities will include: 

  • Design, implement and integrate OpenStack based private cloud in Visa's data centers across the globe, enable the cloud solution to interoperate smoothly with existing IT infrastructure and processes, ensure reliability, elasticity and security
  • Design and implement of agile innovative infrastructure solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditization
  • Provide highly reliable infrastructure solutions that are extremely secure enabling Operations to manage environments simply and effectively
  • Design overall cloud tools architecture, standards and integration, understand vendor road map and industry trends, evaluate tools releases, upgrades, fixes and patches
  • Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support Operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
  • Champion the adoption of open infrastructure solutions that are fit for purpose yet forward the Visa goals to keep technology relevant
  • Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements
  • Continuously improve tooling and technologies set, maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations
  • Work with business representatives, IT Management, IT development, support teams and vendors to ensure on time, on budget, and quality delivery of technical solutions that support the strategic direction of the business and IT
     

Qualifications

  • 10+ years platform experience, expertise with Operating Systems (Linux, Windows) and virtualization (KVM, VSphere, Hyper-V)
  • Excellent understanding of Cloud technologies in application of hypervisor, storage and network automation capabilities
  • Must have prior hands-on experience in designing, building, implementing and supporting Openstack based cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Clear understanding of modern network protocols and processes running on each of network layers; Deep understanding of OpenVswitch, knowledge and experience of SDN is plus
  • Experienced in building automated solutions through tools and software that enable infrastructure to be remotely provisioned, configured and decommissioned
  • Solid technology background in the Compute, Network and Storage space with current understanding of implementation of vendor solutions provided by HP, Cisco, EMC, Netapp, Hitachi
  • Experience in selecting, designing and developing a tool-chain with loosely coupled software components to perform specific technical functions.
  • Strong analytical skills, able to work independently to solve complex engineering problems. Make independent judgments/decisions within established guidelines
  • Communicate well with others both verbally and in writing and be able to effectively interact with  peers, management and other outside contacts
  • The ability to gather and understand business requirements, translate them into technical/operational requirements
  • High degree of initiative and sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis
  • Self-confident, commands technical authority and respect at all levels
  • Demonstrable teamwork attitude, ready to initiate collaboration and resolve conflicts

Key skills required: (in the order of priority) 

  • Expert level Hypervisor Experience: VMWARE, KVM, Hyper-V (must have)
  • RHEL Linux System Administration (must have)
  • Openstack design and deployment (Must have)
  • Windows 2008, Windows 2012 (must have)
  • Good Understanding of Network Concepts(must have)
  • Scripting - shell, Ruby or Python (must have)
  • Expertise in one or more configuration management tool: Ansible, Chef or Puppet for managing medium & large environments (Must have)
  • API design and RESTful principles, able to utilize REST APIs for integration and testing (Must have)
  • Version control, GIT or Subversion (good to have)
  • Containerization concepts, experience with clustering and scheduling suites such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, DCOS (good to  have)
  • RabbitMQ, ELK & MySQL (good to have)
  • Public Cloud, AWS, Azure (good to have)
  • DevOps - CI/CD understanding (good to have) 

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