Systems Engineer - Sr. Consultant - IaaS

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The ideal candidate is a technology savvy with deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Microservices, Golang, Python, Ansible and CI/CD process. Able to work on opensource projects, able to contribute and commit the code to upstream opensource projects. Candidate should have familiarity with Opensource projects such as Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Prometheus/Grafana, Opentracing, and Servicegraphs.
Specific Responsibilities will include:
    Design and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions/infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditization
    Design, implement and integrate management solutions to effective manage private cloud implementation(Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh) at Visa’s data centers across the globe, ensure reliability, elasticity and security
    Identify, evaluate, select and engineer highly reliable container scheduling and orchestration solutions that are extremely secure enabling Operations to manage environments simply and effectively, ensure on time, on budget, and quality delivery of shared container platform
    Collaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem, establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains - logging, monitoring, configuration management and orchestration. Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
    Champion the adoption of open infrastructure management 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
    Evangelize the cloud and container management platform standards and capabilities, gain insights of the workflows of Product Development, Engineering and Operations teams, ensure platform relevance and drive adoption, enable the application transformation from monolithic to microservices.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5
years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2
years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work
experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or
more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters,
MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 6 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters,
MTech, MS) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD computer
science, Engineering or related field
• Must have 6-8 Years of Shared Infra (Kubernetes & Container) Systems
Administration experience in relevant technology
• Experience in Virtualization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker,
Containers, Mirantis K8, OpenShift
• Experience working in large, complex, enterprise datacenter environments
• Ability to write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of K8
Infrastructure
• Excellent verbal, written, skills in particular, demonstrated ability to effectively
communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple
organizational levels internally and externally
• Strong understanding of process orientation (ITIL), understanding of project
management techniques, methodologies, and best practices
• Individuals should be self-motivated with the ability to work independently
• Sound planning, organizational and problem solving skills
• Candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate
effectively with both technical and non technical customers
• Strong project, organizational, presentation, and writing skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and commitments in an environment
that requires multitasking among concurrent projects
• Experience supporting a 24x7 Operational environment, requiring shift support
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to adapt quickly to changing
priorities and assignments
• Ability to set goals and objectives, prioritize, and manage situations to
satisfactory completion
• Ability to coordinate activities within cross-divisional and cross functional
teams.

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.