Senior Platform Engineer - Site Reliability

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

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

The Opportunity:
This role will be a member of a newly merged Operations Engineering NZ team consisting of database administrators and site reliability engineers based in New Zealand. The team will work closely with the equivalent northern hemisphere-based team
You will have a balance of improvements, systems operations, and unplanned work with occasional contribution to strategic initiatives.
You will collaborate with all members of the Platform Engineering Group and other departments to make visible and improve the reliability, availability, performance, monitoring and operations of Fraedom products and services.

This role is also accountable for the reliability of Fraedom’s globally hosted environments and services to ensure:

  • Fraedom applications and infrastructure performance is well within service level objectives
  • Effective monitoring and reporting on production and preproduction systems is maintained
  • Infrastructure changes, application releases, system patches and overall performance are all managed to the highest standards
  • Prevent repetitive failures by collaborating with relevant teams and learning from incidents
  • Fraedom production infrastructure benefits from a process of continuous improvement

Key to this position will be developing advanced knowledge of Fraedom technologies and the Fraedom platform that will allow you to excel in the technical support arena. You will need to be committed to continuous improvement.
As we are moving towards much wider adoption of AWS for production workloads, there is also a requirement for at least 2 years of experience of AWS in a SRE capacity. Understanding of native AWS database technologies would be an advantage.

  • Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Experience with Cloud/SaaS technical web environments
  • Experience supporting geographically disperse systems across multiple time zones.
  • Troubleshooting experience, especially on production systems
  • Critical thinking skills and understanding of complex systems
  • Familiarity and understanding of infrastructure
  • Exposure to working with Cloud (AWS) and Managed Infrastructure providers
  • Monitoring systems (New Relic, Splunk, Logic Monitor and SQL Monitor)
  • Experience working with teams across multiple time zones
  • General Development experience

Qualifications

The experience and skills that we are looking for:

  • Great communication skills and a willingness to collaborate.
  • Self-motivated with a positive attitude.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a proven ability for resolving issues
  • Ability to work autonomously on time critical tasks.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • A willingness to work on-call and flexible working hours, when required.
  • A willingness to support a DevOps culture
  • Be flexible and able to adapt to a changing environment

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.
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