Sr.Manager - Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

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

Our team, IaaS Systems and Storage & Engineering (ISSE), is a critical part of Visa's Operations & Infrastructure technology organization. Our vision, mission, and purpose are:

Vision - Deliver best-in-class Infrastructure on demand everywhere.  

Mission - Engineer and build reliable and secure infrastructure for all type of workloads in Private/ Hybrid Cloud, utilizing open and innovative technologies at the right unit cost.

Purpose - increase innovation velocity of developers and reduce infrastructure maintenance overhead

These guiding principles drive our daily efforts and align with Visa's overarching vision: The best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere.

As the Senior Manager of Container Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead and manage a team of container infrastructure engineers. Your team will adopt, integrate, and engineer industry-leading technologies and management solutions for our on-premises container platform and public clouds, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and cloud based container platforms, such as EKS and GKE. You will be responsible for the solutions we provide to our customers, ensuring the availability, performance, security, and reliability of the applications running on the infrastructure we engineer, implement, and support. Additionally, you will define, advocate, and deliver standard container focused foundational services for Visa's public cloud implementation. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to design and implement solutions with a strong security posture, deliver functionalities with optimized cost, and improve developer productivity on a global scale. Continuous, iterative improvements in our processes, technology, tools, and automation will be essential to achieving these goals.

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate is technology-savvy, with a deep understanding of container infrastructure and a proven track record of managing engineering teams. You should have a strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, container technologies, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture. Additionally, you should have good experience in designing and implementing infrastructure solutions on one of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and be proficient in programming/scripting languages (Golang, Python, Ansible, Terraform). Familiarity with CI/CD processes and experience working on open-source projects are also beneficial.

• Essential Functions
  • Influence the technology roadmap for infrastructure management, be the gatekeeper for the definition of implementable strategies for cloud infrastructure, drive the implementation of these strategies and delivery the projects on target, on budget and on time
  • Drive the technology transformation, establish and maintain standards and integration. Identify, implement and advocate open standards and APIs to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
  • 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) at Visa’s data centers across the globe, ensure reliability, elasticity and security
  • Collaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem, establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains - logging, monitoring, configuration management, security compliance 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
  • Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance by identifying and implementing the most optimal cloud-based solutions, be the foc