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Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

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Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

If you think you could support Visa as a Linux System Specialist, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Reporting to the Architecture, System and Network manager, the Linux System Specialist is responsible for all Linux based technology within Tech&Ops France department.

What we expect of you, day to day. 

• Liaise with internal business and IT groups (such as database administration, infrastructure support, development) in performing support activities, system configuration and standard functionality analysis for enhancement requests.
• Interface with external software vendors for product issue troubleshooting and resolution
• Proactively identify, evaluate, and communicate ideas for process improvements and training needs both for applications usage by customers as well as for internal processes and
  skills enhancement.
• Responsible for operational excellence model and compliance of all Linux relative technology within Tech&Ops department.
• Undertake the day to day ops maintenance and evolution for Linux based technology server according to service and security standards (such as Key Controls, PCI, …).
• Provide expertise and technical analysis support to highlight solution that complies to Visa cybersecurity standard
• Collaborate with other teams across the department or company  to spec and build solutions for their needs
• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using relevant technologies
• Provide expertise in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environment
• Respond to and solve defects in a timely manner consistent with the business needs.
• Act as the last line of escalation for technical support incidents
• Implement automation of tasks and regular updates using various techs (pshell, bash script, vmware tools, git, …)
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization
• Ensure that all change record documentation is prepared and completed as required.
• Represent the department, as a key Linux tech expert, in all audit, discussion or comitee

Thinking about careers differently...

At Visa, we are passionate to offer our employees compelling career growth opportunities. As such, even if you do not have experience of this function there could be skills or experiences, which would transfer well. For this role, the key skills required are:

• Educated to Master degree or equivalent professional experience
• Extensive experience of Linux systems technologies and management 
• Extraordinary experience of IT security
• Firm understanding of company security policies (Internal Standard/PCI DSS) and how to build systems to adhere to them
• Significant knowledge and interest for new technologies
• Communication skills in French and English
• Ability to multi-task and able to work with minimal supervision
• Good knowledge of problems / incident / change management (ITIL method), and ability to look for and solve problems within critical business environment

 

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.