Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
For Visa to deliver on the vision of the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere, the Operations & Infrastructure (O&I) group must provide best-in-class infrastructure services that are secure, scalable, continuously available, and run on software-defined infrastructures. The O&I group offers an exciting opportunity to work on latest technologies where the industry is going through major innovations such as cloud computing.
The Middleware Engineering provides end-to-end design, build and support services for the Web and Middle-tier platforms, which comes under PaaS (Platform as a Service). Selected candidate would work alongside other Middleware Systems engineers and technical team members, to design, build, support, and enhance internal and external facing platform built on top of various Middleware and Integration platforms.
We are looking for an innovative, capable Staff Systems Engineer / DevOps / Cloud Engineer working with the Middleware Engineering team is part of the Operations & Infrastructure and is responsible for common middleware and integration infrastructure that supports communication between multiple enterprise applications and multiple business lines.
This role will be responsible for development, configuration, problem analysis, deployment, and continuous operational improvement of middleware technologies used at Visa.
Applicant should also have an excellent foundational knowledge of web/App tier (Tomcat/JAVA/Httpd, etc.) and be comfortable implementing Security (SSL/PKI), compliance industry standards, Understanding of Micro Container technology and best practices.
Responsibilities:
Review various middleware technologies in a cloud environment, manage seamless deployment, and integrate with other internal middleware technologies and applications.
Lead the design, implementation, and management of highly available and scalable infrastructure for all cloud initiatives (Ex: GCP, Azure, AWS).
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective cloud-based operational architectures.
Design, implement, and optimize Middleware components & services on GCP/Azure/AWS.
Develop and implement best practices and standards for deploying and managing applications on Middleware components.
Perform system and application performance tuning and optimization to maximize efficiency and scalability.
Develop and manage automation plan for deploying, managing, and monitoring middleware technologies.
Ensure the middleware technology stack's security, scalability, and performance.
Provide technical guidance and support to more prominent team members.
Keep abreast of the latest industry trends and technologies.
Open to experimenting with Open Source technology, performing POC, providing recommendations, and driving to standardization.
This role will complement Middleware Engineering team with Cloud. Currently, multiple projects are considering using public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP and Azure. This role will help build the cloud foundation for the group.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualification
-5 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years
of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree.
-5 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years
of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree.
-Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer in a role managing Middleware
technology stack or similar role.
-Strong working experience with one or more middleware technologies related
to Caching , Messaging, Web & App (Hazlecast, Kafka, MQ, Ngnix, Tomcat)
areas.
-Strong knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
-Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc.
-Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD tools and processes.
-Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
-Strong communication and teamwork skills.
-If you are a Cloud Engineer passionate about Middleware Technology, we
would love to hear from you. This is a fantastic opportunity to impact a fast-
paced, innovative environment significantly.
Preferred Qualification
-Should be able to work independently with minimum supervision and gather
and analyze multiple teams' requirements to assist with deploying and
supporting various enterprise middleware technologies.
-Knowledge of Micro Container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift)
Basic knowledge of programming in Java, J2EE
-Familiar with configuration management tools like Chef or Ansible, DevOps
tools- Jenkins, Git, CI/CD pipeline.
-Understanding of level 3 (engineering) support for integration solutions in
production environments
-Should be able to be coordinating with teams spread across globally with
occasional provide 24x7 support
-Knowledge of Fraud Management, Payment, and/or Credit Card processing is a
plus.
-Excellent verbal and written communication and attention to detail skills
Additional Information
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
