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.

• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of agile scrum teams.
• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and 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 deployment support across multiple non-production environments
• Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running
• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
• Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development Operations, and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support
• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
• Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation
• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific deployment problem
• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
• Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
• Champion and Evangelize the vision for the CM and Release Strategy
• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team
• Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team
 

- 3+ years of industry experience overall  with at least 5+ years of experience in release and configuration management roles
- Build and troubleshoot build issues in java applications
- Exposure to CHEF (preferable)
- Linux and Shell Scripting and Automation
- Experience in deployment management tool - Jenkins, both in setup and support is highly desired.
- Expert knowledge of CM concepts (codelines, branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.)
- Experience with structured build files/tools (ant, Maven)
- Experience with a scripting language (Perl, Python, bash)
- Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX;
- Should have working experience with monitoring tools like OPPNET and/or SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
- Experience in working with Oracle and/or MySQL DB’s
- Experience with Java web environments (Websphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat (Must))
- Experience with multiple software version control systems (GIT(Must), Subversion, ClearCase, Perforce, etc.)
- Experience with Change Management tools (Jira, ClearQuest, etc.)
- Good attention to detail, someone who takes ownership and pride in all work.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work with and manage distributed teams.
- Passion for quality in CM processes
- Thrives in a fast paced environment with continuously changing priorities
- Ability to move forward given ambiguous conditions
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Results driven; does what it takes to get the job done and naturally goes the extra mile
- Ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously and prioritize time with minimal supervision
- Complete understanding of the software development life-cycle.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies (scrum, xp, etc.)