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.

We dream of a future where it’s easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet. Where ever. Whenever. Securely. Easily. We have a great toolbox of leadership technologies under the Cybersource and Authorize.net product lines. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems. 

As a Staff SW Engineer, you will be part of our TechOps, SysOps team responsible for operating our development, test, deployment and production solutions to meet the substantial growth needs of our business. You will be part of a talented team essential for delivering and supporting a fast, reliable, secure and highly available services for our mission critical hosted ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

•   Support  secure, highly available and supportable infrastructure, middleware and application software (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

•   Influence the design and implementation of the next-gen service architecture, monitoring
tools and automation strategies.

•   Passionate about automation, smart monitoring, intelligent alerting and streamlining system
 provisioning.

•   Strong attention to detail and quality.

•   Focus on predicting and preventing failures.

•   Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with previous experience tackling and solving
complex problems.

•   Experience and fluency in software development and/or systems engineering practices and
frameworks.

•   Knowledgeable in networking, security, middleware and Linux technologies

Qualifications:

•   8+ years of relevant work experience.

•   4+ years of Linux-based systems engineering experience in one or more high-volume, highly
available production environments.

•   2+ years of experience  analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale, distributed production systems.

•   2+ years of experience with mission critical production ecosystems.

•   2+ years of demonstrated expertise specifying, design and implementing system health, performance
monitoring and service management tools.

•   1+ years of demonstrated experience with capacity management, event management, service level
management, incident management, release management, change management and/or root cause analysis practices and supported tooling.

•   1+ years of demonstrated experience with enterprise monitoring systems and SIEM tools (e.g.,
Nagios, Graphite, Cacti, openNMS, Observium, splunk, McAfee, LogRhythm).

•    Experience working in 24*7 environments will be key to this role.


•   Proficiency in Linux  operating systems concepts, memory management, TCP/IP networking, file
systems, RAID, NAS, SAN, process scheduling, virtualization and clustering.

•   Experience with Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Shell, SQL, XML.

•   Experience with Linux, J2EE Application Servers, Servlet Engines, ESB, Relational DBs, Big Data, Cloud Computing, JMX, JMS including Oracle, MySQL, Apache, JBoss, Glassfish,  Tomcat, Mule ESB, Spring, Spring Batch, Puppet.

•   Familiar with systems engineering life-cycle (SELC) best practices, software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, RUP), ITIL, SysOps and  DevOps practices and Professional Services. 

•   Strong verbal and written communications skills.

•   Experience working directly with technical and business customer stakeholders in high pressure
situations.

•   Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of -band requests.

Preferred Qualifications:

•   Payment industry domain expertise and knowledge of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

•    Experience with high-volume, high-availability transactional environments and big data services.