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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Visa Inc is looking for a dynamic individual to join Release Engineering team as a Sr Release Engineer in US foster city office. The team maintains the build/deploy systems and owns related processes to ensure high quality of delivery standards.

The Release Engineer will handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the release/DevOps needs of development scrum teams. These tasks include configuration identification, change management, build, deploy and release artifact management, version control, and source code auditing, reporting, environment support and troubleshooting.

The Sr Release Engineer will work with multiple functional teams, and providing assistance through-out the development cycle for any S/W code changes to build, release, deploy processes to get QA certified into integration environments to release into production environments. Cross-functional team collaboration and effective communications skills are essential.

Essential Functions

Key responsibilities include:
• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of development scrum teams.
• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply release engineering best practices
• Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures
• Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications
• Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 support across multiple non-production environments.
• Responsible for continuous delivery pipeline for build & deployment

• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
• Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development, testing team and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support
• Maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
• Troubleshoot and support environment availability.
• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific problem
• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team

Relocation is not supported for this role.

Immigration Sponsorship is not supported for this role.

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.

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.