Staff Network Engineer

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.    

The Opportunity:

Global Network Engineering is responsible for the strategy, architecture, design, support, and reliability of Visa Inc.'s networks. Network Engineering also shares responsibility with information security for network access and security compliance of all networks. In this role, you will be responsible for the data center design, engineering, and support of IP networks for Visa’s Debit Processing Services (DPS) and Latin America and Caribbean commercial network infrastructure, the network that connects Visa to our commercial clients. 

The Work itself:

• Plan, design, implement and support network systems of moderate complexity in the commercial network environment.

• Support WAN connections and determine capacity requirements for new business or requirements.

• Be the primary source of expertise for client connectivity providing consultancy and advice to both clients and the Visa business.

• Provide network design documentation to project teams, peers, and network support organizations.

• Provision new client processing by completing the necessary network updates and providing technical assistance to clients in support of network changes.

• Perform third-level support within Visa to resolve network issues and provide guidance to other Visa teams involved in network troubleshooting.

• Work with the Cybersecurity to ensure Visa security standards are met and provide technical assistance for investigation and analysis of security events.

• Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of client connectivity.

• Seek opportunities to improve network management through automation and AI. 

Essential Functions

The Skills You Bring:

• Leadership: Leading network engineering contribution to major projects

• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries and challenging the traditional approach.

• Network Expertise: Expertise in design and engineering customer facing network services.

• Builder: Experience building and deploying customer facing network services with an emphasis on quality and scalability

• Learning: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as public cloud

• Partnership: Experience collaborating with other technology teams including third-parties

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least November 7, 2025.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
•5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
•6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
•Network design and engineering experience on customer facing networks.
•Automation and scripting experience (Ansible, Python, Perl, etc.)
•IP networking switching and routing in MPLS based networks. Familiarity with DMVPN implementation in a high availability setting would be useful.
•Experience and expertise with IP routing protocols OSPF and BGP plus knowledge of encryption technologies (IPSec, SSL), standby protocols HSRP and VRRP, and network address translation (NAT) experience.
•Some familiarity with the use of Artificial Intell