Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Operations - Visa

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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Our systems and applications are exceedingly available and exceptionally performing. We are into the business, which touch everyone pocket if card is being used for transaction. Those transactions are happening within fraction of seconds. In addition, within a second, thousands of transactions happen concurrently. Our service is not limited to one junction, we are in more than 200 countries.

Security is our prior concern. We develop an environment, which is reliable for transactions happening more than a trillion in value. Millions of cyberattacks is always challenging and give us more confidence to make our environment more assured. Availability is ensuring to security. Our environments are available round the clock. As technology is changing day by day, we believe in continuous enhancement of ourselves and like to deep dive of present-day knowledge.

What are responsibilities of Sr. Site Reliability Engineering

Essential Functions: 

• Prime responsibility of Sr. Site Reliability Engineering is to make sure that environment is secure and safe. All security findings should be remediated within required resolution date defined by governance.

• We do not allow outage, even for a second. If any issue happens, as owner of the environment we do the needful to make sure those environments are up and running. Root cause analysis should be within hours. We make sure that findings are remediated in Production environment after all tests and checks in lower environments.

• As owner of environment, we keep track of all activities planned or happening in our environments. We are responsible for deploying new code in the environment.

• We look and analyze our environment regularly. If there is a manual task, we do automation of that. We are increasing selfheal capabilities and will continue to do the same until environments become auto-heal.

• If a new service is coming under our support or if migration of old environment is going to happen to new technologies, we start interaction with product developer to sketch out planning for production.

• As our business is running around the clock, we work in shifts and synchronize with multiple locations and multiple tracks.

• We make sure that every activity is being recorded as per incident or change management process. Technical and related run books need to be prepared and shared with the team.

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:
• 2 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree; OR 5 years relevant work experience. 

Preferred Qualifications:
• 3 or more years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or more than 2
years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD)
• IT experience with expertise in DevOps, Build and release Engineering, Cloud
Infrastructure and Automation, Tech support(preferred)
• Ability to work as team player
• Good written and communication skills
• Punctual to office time and work
• Great with problem solving and troubleshooting
• Ability to effectively prioritize and coordinate
• Ability to learn fast and implement latest technology trends in the industry
• Good understanding of CI CD technologies.
• Core Skills on Dockers, DevOps, Linux.
• DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Good experience in java-based web applications
• Implementing CI CD process
• Expertise in Trouble shouting on java applications in Tomcat services and
Web application in Apache.
• Good Exposure on Virtualization and Containers.
• Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using
scripting languages such as Shell scripting, Java Script, Python, Other
• Worked with Docker and created multiple containers and images and had
experience on writing the Docker file
• Created the deployments, services, and ingress flows for the application setup
in the Kubernetes cluster.
• Participated in release level discussions and gone through the total SDLC and
Agile methodology
• Support OnCall for all SRE activities

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 102,300.00 to 144,550.00 USD per year, 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.