Sr. Staff SW DEVOPS Engineer

Posted Mar 2

Full Job Description

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

Visa Inc is looking for a dynamic individual to join Release Engineering team as a Sr Staff Release Engineer in US foster city office. The team maintains the build/deploy systems and owns related technology and processes to ensure high quality of delivery standards in fast paced multi facet environment.

Sr Staff Release Engineer will handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the release/DevOps needs of development teams along building new solutions to provide seamless CI/CD pipeline. These tasks include configuration management, build, deploy and release artifact management, version control, and source code auditing, reporting, environment support and troubleshooting.

The Sr Staff Release Engineer will work with multiple functional teams, and providing assistance through-out the development cycle for any S/W code changes to build, release, deploy processes to get QA certified into integration environments to release into production environments. Cross-functional team collaboration and effective communications skills are essential with technical expertise.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key responsibilities include:

  • Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of Product development teams.
  • Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply release engineering best practices.
  • Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures.
  • Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications
  • Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 support across multiple non-production environments.
  • Responsible for continuous delivery pipeline for build & deployment and ownership for specific problems and provide coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolution.
  • Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development, testing team and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment readiness and support.
  • Maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
  • Troubleshoot and support environment availability.
  • Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
  • Experience in CI tool - Jenkins, both in setup and support is required.
  • Experience or certification with Containers, Kubernetes, Docker EE & OpenShift.
  • Build and troubleshoot build issues in Java applications.
  • DevOps Acumen to build better solutions to bring operation excellence in Build/deploy pipelines for VM and Containers.
  • Linux, Unix and Shell Scripting, and Automation
  • Experience with one scripting or programming language (Python, bash)
  • Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX,
  • Experience with monitoring tools SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
  • Strong Experience with RDBMS Database technology like Oracle, MySQL, Liquibase.
  • Experience with SCM tools -GIT (Bitbucket) and Artifactory, DTR
  • Experience with Project Management tools (Jira)
  • Great communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with distributed teams.

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

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 130,800.00 to 170,000.00 USD, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

  • Health insurance