Site Reliability Engineer

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.

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Job Description

The Staff Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a critical part of our Visa Cloud platform strategy. In this role, you will be focused on ensuring Visa’s development platform and tooling allows our key stakeholders, development engineers in the technology group, to focus more on innovation than infrastructure management. This role will drive the adoption of observability best practices and instrument automation for resolving recurring issues. You must be comfortable working with software engineering teams and supporting their demanding needs to ensure the security, availability and performance of the platform. This engineer must be capable of triaging issues, managing infrastructure with peer teams as well as instrumenting monitoring to ensure proper coverage. Being hands on keyboard is a must for this role with a focus on developing reliability engineering for Visa Cloud Platform.

Essential Functions

· You will guide the instrumentation of monitoring for the DevTools (IaaS/PaaS/Container as a service)

· You will ensure the platform target SLAs are met and implement appropriate SLIs for supporting services

· You will work with developers during service transition, evaluating reliability and operability of the applications and ensuring adequate monitoring, alerting and observability

· You will partner with peers within Operations & Infrastructure supporting ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the platform

· To be successful in this role, you must focus on setting standards for automating routine tasks and workflows in support of the larger DevEx SRE team

· The right candidate must be capable of supporting multiple internal stakeholders with a variety of technical challenges. Excelling in this role requires the ability to analyze and discern patterns in the myriad of issues that arise and propose solutions to these problems.

· Visa DevTools-Cloud SRE team has 24/7/365 operation model and work schedule will be required to work in shift or on call support model (weekend required)

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:·1+ year of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree,· Hands on experience in Linux and Windows systems and good understanding of distributed computing environments.· Intermediate level programming and/or scripting in 3 or more of the following: Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, JavaScript, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Chef, Cloud Formation· experience managing CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps in a large-scale environment· experience managing observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, DynaTrace, Sentry, etc. in a large-scale environment· Advanced understanding of YAML, JSON, HTML, XML.· experience supporting relational and non-relational databases [MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.), including creating and running queries, managing performance and scaling· Experience managing container infrastructure and supporting development transformation to a container first modelPreferred Qualifications:· 1 or more years working in a Platform, SRE or Production Engineering group for high availability/critical platforms/applications· Exposure to Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, scvmm etc)· Experience managing a distributed container platform including but not limited to deployment/release management, provisioning, capacity management, workload management

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.