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Visa's Distributed Systems Architecture & Engineering (DSAE) team collaborates with product development teams, and other teams within the Operations & Infrastructure organization on engineering, building and maintaining the most innovative, reliable, secure and cost-effective distributed solutions to meet VISA customers’ growing needs.

This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify creative solutions. This role serves as a technical and functional specialist and works independently with mentorship only in the most complex situations.

Specific Responsibilities will include:

• Work in a complex, highly-secure, and highly available operations environments and interacting with the technology domain authorities required to maintain those environments

• Function as the compute lead on critical infrastructure projects and initiatives

• Write technical design and build documentation for compute infrastructure

• Develop ITIL procedures, technology strategy, engineering standards, methodologies, task-plans and standard methodologies for Distributed Compute Engineering

• Collaborate with partner Engineering Disciplines to develop Infrastructure Building Blocks based Reference Architectures and standards that can be offered as services to our customers

• Mentor junior team members

Technical Requirements:

• In-depth experience with the following Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise 6 and 7, AIX 7 and/or Ubuntu 16.x and 18.x.

• In depth experience with enterprise class virtualization technologies including VMware, and/or IBM Power Virtualization

• Engineering knowledge with hands-on experience on Linux container technology, SELinux, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes strongly preferred

• Strong Hardware and OS deployment experience in the following server product lines:  HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge and/or IBM Power

• Strong scripting skills in UNIX environments. In-depth experience in deployment and workflow automation

• Experience in automation and workflow tools such as Ansible, Chef and BladeLogic tool

• Strong analytical and technical troubleshooting skills, and possess an ability to explain technical concepts and provide mentorship to junior staff

• Strong expertise and experience in system monitoring techniques and tools

• Strong understanding of big data technologies including Hadoop and GPFS

• Hands on experience with back end system management products including Red Hat Satellite Server, Spacewalk, Ubuntu Landscape and AIX NIM

• Sound knowledge in server end SAN/NAS configuration and troubleshooting

• Ability to analyze, troubleshoot and solve issues with storage stack (Hosts, SAN switches and Storage Devices)

• Engineering knowledge in TCPIP networking – link aggregation/redundancy, switches, routing and load-balancing

• Ability to write technical design and build documentations for all aspects of a technical infrastructure

• Strong ability to integrate content from other domain areas and construct final technical design documents

• Strong ability to provide level 3 support and guide level 2 system administrators on problem resolution

• Good understanding and experience in operational acceptance/turnover activities

• Good understanding and experience in operational acceptance/turnover activities

Professional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field required,

• 7+ years of relevant working experience in large enterprise operational environments required

• 24x7 "On-call" support rotation required

• Broad knowledge in hardware, software, network and applications deployments thru automation

• Confirmed experience in an application hosting or data center environment

• Confirmed experience with maintaining highly available and highly secure systems

• Good hands on technical engineering professional with business insight

• Strong process orientation and solid grasp of software development and testing techniques, methodologies and best practices

• Good experience in design and implementation experience with custom and off-the-shelf applications, and help coordinate activities of multiple technology domains in terms of design and deployment ITIL certification preferred

• Demonstrate team work attitude, ready to initiate collaboration and resolve conflicts