Staff Systems Engineer - DevEx

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.

The Staff Systems Engineer in the Developer Experience group will be responsible for engineering and supporting various technologies and tools to provide best Developer experience for Visa’s Development community.  Key responsibilities include:

• Engineer vendor products to Visa’s environment by installing, upgrading, patching, and maintaining Developer tools. 
• Interface with internal departments such as Cybersecurity and Governance groups to ensure controls are established maintained and complied for all Developer tools.
• Interact with vendors and provide necessary feedback to tailor vendor products to meet Visa’s needs.
• Develop standards and enforce governance across CICD practices
• Create and maintain templates and catalogs of pipelines and manage inner sourcing processes
• Perform regular housekeeping on tools to provide high standards of application stability and reliability.
• Support ongoing Developer Tools projects and provide technical input as needed.
• Support complex technical issues in an interop production environment.
• Participate in L3 on-call support rotation.

Tools Include:

• Project management
• Source code management.
• Build and Deployment management.
• Test and Quality tools.
• Cloud services for DevOps   
• Developer productivity and analytics tools.

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.

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 bachelor’s 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
• 4/5+ years of experience working in the capacity of a Devops admin role, build/release/systems engineer, or any other software development related job
• Expert knowledge as admin or user on at least 5 of the following tools GitHub, GH Actions, CodeFresh ArgoCD, Terraform Env0, Artifactory, ECR, DTR, SonarQube, CheckMarx, Nexus IQ, Jira and Jira Align.
• Good working knowledge in the use of software build tools, e.g. maven, npm or Gradle, docker
• Prefer to have AWS / GCP / Azure certified
• Minimum 2 years hands-on experience with Docker & Kubernetes preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with AWS /GCP
• Good knowledge in writing pipelines for CI/CD and catalog management
• Excellent knowledge in troubleshooting and debugging technical issues.
• Excellent knowledge using tools such as Splunk, Graffana, Prometheus, Cloud watch and other monitoring tools.
• Experience in using Python/Shell Scripting/PowerShell/Groovy, or any scripting language.
• Experience with Java, Golang, or .net programming languages is highly preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of DevOps practices and procedures
• Proven ability to multi-task
• Self-motivated and adaptable to change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a team setting.

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.