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 our team as a Staff SW Release Engineer. As a member of the Release Engineering team, the Staff SW Release Engineer will be ensuring availability of CI/CD systems and automation tooling across PPT for various type of binaries including VMs & containers. The team maintains the build/deploy systems and owns related processes to ensure high quality of delivery standards for a large landscape of digital payment applications.

The Staff SW Release Engineer will handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the release/DevOps needs of Application development 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 Staff SW Release Engineer will have working relationships with multiple teams, providing assistance through the development cycle for any required changes to the build/release/deploy processes required to get a product certified into integration environments through the release into production environments.

Cross-functional team collaboration and effective communications skills are essential.

Essential Functions:

Key responsibilities include:
• Build & Support Container CI/CD pipeline for build, deploy and release requirements.
• 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, integration 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 for containers.
• 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 non-prod environment support.
• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
• Maintain and suggest improvements to deployment scripts and tooling
• Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices.
• Implement metrics, monitoring & Key Performance Indicators.
 

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum three (3) years of experience in a directly related field. OR

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum five (5) years of experience in a directly related field. OR

• Minimum eight (8) years of directly related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 + years of Industry experience with 4+ years of experience in DevOps, CI/CD , Release with automation Experience.
• Solid Experience or certification with Containers technologies, Kubernetes, Docker EE & OpenShift to build/enhance seamless CI/CD pipeline.
• Build and troubleshoot build issues in Java applications.
• DevOps Acumen to build better solutions to bring operation excellence in Build/deploy pipelines for VM and Containers.
• Linux, Unix and Shell Scripting, and Automation
• Experience with one scripting or programming language (Python, bash)
• Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX,
• Experience with monitoring tools SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
• Strong Experience with RDBMS Database technology like Oracle, MySQL, Liquibase.
• Experience with SCM tools -GIT (Bitbucket) and Artifactory
• CI tool management - Jenkins, both in setup and support is required.
• Experience with Project Management tools (Jira)
• Demonstrated ability to work with distributed teams.

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 119,100.00 to 154,800.00 USD, 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.