About Visa:

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. CyberSource, a Visa company, has been and continues to be a pioneer within the e-Commerce Payment Management world. Our
VisaNet network is capable of handling over 65,000 transaction messages 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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior technical leader to contribute to the delivery of Visa's vision for the transformation of the company's infrastructure toward next-generation capabilities, including software-defined networking (SDN), virtualization, and cloud technologies.

Senior Staff Engineer, Test & Certification will be responsible for:

• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Operations and System teams through the lifecycle of network and platform evolution.
• Build and maintain relationships with global Network Engineering and Operations teams to support network deployment and address network support issues.
• Develop comprehensive test plans based on network designs and test requirements.
• Conduct integration testing of new network hardware, network design and software to support network infrastructure evolution.
• Support backend systems integration testing for provisioning, alarms and surveillance.
• Collaborate with security team to ensure new software, platform and design meets Visa’s security compliance requirements.
• Publish test results and present findings to cross functional teams.
• Leverage the findings from testing to develop methods and procedures to support successful deployment of new technologies in the production network.
• Support the network evolution leveraging Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and other industry advancements.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software in the Global Engineering Test and Certification lab and proof-of-concept environments.
• Follow all documented Change Control process requirements to implement changes in the test environment.
• Work independently and support the platforms and network designs through their lifecycle.

Required Skills:

The ideal candidate will be a senior technologist with strong cross-functional leadership skills and hands on experience with diverse vendor platforms. Following skills are required for the Senior Staff Engineer position:

• A minimum of 10-12+ years of industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Sciences or Electrical Engineering.
• Hands on experience with routers, Ethernet switching platforms.

• Routing and switching design concepts for Data Centers.
• Understanding of the routing protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, MPLS, BGP4, OSPF and RIP.
• Hands on experience with Cisco Modeling Tool (CML) and/or Opnet tool.
• Understanding of Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and its application in Data Center and WAN design.

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced Network Industry certification e.g. CCIE and JNCIE
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Telecommunications, or related technical field
• Network programming using Ansible, Python

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