Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Passionate about technology, this engineer will be part of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team
of systems Engineers responsible for the private cloud environment and associated infrastructure management solutions at Visa especially in designing and deploying Openstack based, multi-Hypervisor cloud solutions. In this role you will be accountable for designing and building innovative cloud
infrastructure solutions to support a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Solid platform & virtualization know-how is a must along with experience with open source solutions to encapsulate the infrastructure making it available as code to customers. Knowledge and experience with infrastructure management tools is also a key requirement. Prior experience with Virtualization, Containers and deployment of infrastructure for large enterprises is required.

Specific Responsibilities will include:

• Design, implement and integrate OpenStack and management solutions to effectively manage private cloud implementation at Visa’s data centers across the globe, ensure reliability, elasticity and security

• Design and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions/infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditization

• Own and evolve the tools architecture, standards and integration for infrastructure management domains, Configuration Management, Monitoring and Orchestration. Identify and implement standard tool sets to reduce complexity and support Operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise

• Responsible for the availability, scale-ability and performance of tools, proactively manage tool capacity and performance (hardware/software), report on usage and adoption

• Understand the infrastructure management tools landscape, vendor road maps and industry
  trends, evaluate tools releases, upgrades, fixes and patches, plan and deploy Provide
  highly reliable infrastructure solutions that are extremely secure enabling Operations to manage environments simply and effectively

• Design overall cloud tools architecture, standards and integration, understand vendor road map and industry trends, evaluate tools releases, upgrades, fixes and patches Identify and implement standard tool sets to reduce complexity and support Operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise

• Evaluate, select, initiate, lead and execute the implementation of infrastructure management solutions, ensure on time, on budget, and quality delivery

• Evangelize the tools standards and capabilities, gain insights of the workflows of Product
  Development, Engineering and Operations teams, ensure tools relevance and drive adoption

• Champion the adoption of open infrastructure solutions that are fit for purpose yet
  forward the Visa goals to keep technology relevant

• Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements

• Continuously improve tooling and technologies set, maintain a common documentation library
  of standardized procedures and configurations

• Work with business representatives, IT Management, IT development, support teams and
  vendors to ensure on time, on budget, and quality delivery of technical solutions that support the strategic direction of the business and IT

• 4+ years platform experience, expertise with (Linux, Windows) and virtualization (KVM, VSphere, Hyper-V
• Excellent understanding of Cloud technologies in application of hypervisor, storage and network automation capabilities
• Must have prior hands-on experience in designing, building, implementing and supporting Openstack based cloud infrastructure solutions
• Clear understanding of modern network protocols and processes running on each of network layers; Deep understanding of OpenVswitch, knowledge and experience of SDN is plus
• Experienced in building automated solutions through tools and software that enable infrastructure to be remotely provisioned, configured and decommissioned
• Solid technology background in the Compute, Network and Storage space with current understanding of implementation of vendor solutions provided by HP, Cisco, EMC, Netapp, Hitachi
• Experience in selecting, designing and developing a tool-chain with loosely coupled software components to perform specific technical functions.
• Strong analytical skills, able to work independently to solve complex engineering problems. Make independent judgments/decisions within established guidelines
• Communicate well with others both verbally and in writing and be able to effectively interact with peers, management and other outside contacts
• The ability to gather and understand business requirements, translate them into technical/operational requirements
• High degree of initiative and sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis
• Self-confident, commands technical authority and respect at all levels
• Demonstrable teamwork attitude, ready to initiate collaboration and resolve conflicts

Key skills required: (in the order of priority)

• Expert level Hypervisor Experience: VMWARE, KVM, Hyper-V (must have)
• RHEL Linux System Administration (must have)
• Openstack design and deployment (Must have)
• Windows 2008, Windows 2012 (must have)
• Good Understanding of Network Concepts(must have)
• Scripting - shell, Ruby or Python) (must have)
• Expertise in one or more configuration management tool: Ansible, Chef or Puppet for managing medium & large environments (Must have)
• API design and RESTful principles, able to utilize REST APIs for integration and testing (Must have)
• Version control – GIT or Subversion (good to have)
• Containerization concepts, experience with clustering and scheduling suites such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, DCOS (good to have)
• RabbitMQ, ELK & MySQL (good to have)
• Public Cloud – AWS, Azure (good to have)
• DevOps – CI/CD understanding (good to have)

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.