Who we are..

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our sophisticated global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays!

The Team ...

Visa Innovation Center focuses on building technology for the next generation of payments. We co-create cutting-edge solutions with our clients, partners, fintechs and other technology leaders. We are dedicated to solving hard problems of the future in new payment flows, Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, Mobile, UX, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer with a passion to build innovative products.

What is it all about?

Working as part of the DevOps team in Innovation Centres and Regional Solutions Group

Regional Solutions and Digital Partnerships (RSDP) delivers technology solutions to meet local and regional market requirements. We prove concepts and pilot new ideas for our regional product partners to assess market demand. We take successful pilots through the commercialization journey, from limited production Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to General Availability. We are technology thought leaders in Digital Partnerships and the new ventures space, working closely with our business partners to craft and implement solutions that attract new business from FinTech and Big-tech payments participants.

What we expect of you, day to day...

This role will be responsible for Operational, Automation and Release activities in pre-production and production environments, providing support for the application build teams, which are making use of Java, Kafka, Docker, MySQL databases in a micro-services and web-service architecture, maximising configuration automation tools such as Jenkins, Vault and operational tools such as Splunk, Sysdig, and Prometheus.

A strong candidate must have domain expertise in all facets of the job, and leadership abilities to build an impactful team and foster collaborative working relationships with team members and stakeholders, as well as advanced skills in communications, critical analysis, and problem-solving. The role will additionally have a key responsibility for creating DevOps tools and capabilities both to aid the current build activities and for the long-term running of the Innovation center applications, for example CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and operational monitoring.

• The ideal candidate has proven and demonstrable experience of implementing and maintaining Dev Ops infrastructure and capability for an enterprise grade micro services architecture in a highly available (five 9s) environment. You also have background providing Level 2 and Level 3 technical support and troubleshooting issues in the release builds and deployments.
• They will also have spent time developing code within a software development team having familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release and be comfortable working/leading on multiple workstreams.

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.

We are looking for someone that is...

• Skilled with Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes with hands-on experience in deployment workflows.
• Skilled at CI/CD using automation tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible.
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python.
• Can debug and troubleshooting problems in Linux/Unix-based application servers such as Java backend and microservices environments.
• Have experience testing in an AGILE environment and should have exposure to testing environment migration, DB, and infrastructure/system upgrades.
• Can use and configuring operational tools such as Splunk, and Kibana.
• Experience testing REST-based applications.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile and collaborative team environment.
• Development experience/exposure with Java (alternatively a strong background in C or Go).
• Can work with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
• Declarative Pipelines experience like Cloudformation and Azure DevOps.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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.