Staff Software Engineer- Devops

Company Description

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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

We are seeking skilled, proactive, and enthusiastic engineers who are passionate about tackling challenges and are adept at problem-solving. As a DevOps Engineer, you will join a team of professionals focused on constructing and maintaining enterprise-level CI/CD pipelines. Your responsibilities will include infrastructure orchestration, reliability engineering, security, access control, monitoring and tool automation. You will stay updated with the latest advancements in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, reassess architectural decisions, and manage migrations when necessary. We value individuals who are passionate about enhancing processes, reducing inefficiencies in workflows, and enjoy tackling technical challenges in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain, expand, and create automated Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.

• Design, implement, and manage reliable build/deployment systems.

• Mentor and support junior team members, providing guidance and feedback to foster their growth.

• Use your problem-solving skills to troubleshoot complex issues, driven by a high level of ownership and curiosity.

• Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development, and code reviews.

• Monitor official builds and drive infrastructure issues towards resolution.

• Write optimized, secure, functional, and scalable code, and fine-tune your results for performance.

• Strive for quality code production, seeking reviews from senior engineers to ensure standard compliance.

• Develop unit level test cases in line with domain standards using the provided tools.

• Provide accurate work estimates, a skill that will be developed on the job.

• Share knowledge through presentations to the development community and assist others with the knowledge acquired over time.

• Continually seek opportunities for personal growth and contribute to the development processes' improvement within the organization.

• Generate creative solutions to solve problems.

• Understand the broader picture and prioritize tasks effectively to meet timelines.

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.

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
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum three (4) years experience in a directly related field or master’s degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum one (2) year(s) experience in DevOps.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Self-motivated with a drive to creatively solve complex problems.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Strong experience in code repository management (Bitbucket/GitHub...), code merging, quality checks, continuous integration, automated deployment & management using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Chef, Ansible, Artifactory, Service Now, Sonar.
• Proven experience in the design and implementati