Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

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.

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Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to:

• Manage, support, and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.
• Responsible for database administration for off the shelf and internally developed applications, ensuring continuous 24x7 operation and availability in support of mission critical business applications.
• Install, maintain, and upgrade databases.
• Write/maintain OS level scripts for DB and application maintenance.
• Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
• Responsible for physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Responsible for proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level 3 issues.
• Responsible for regular capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and structured organized reporting.
• Work closely with other Infrastructure engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations teams to ensure delivery of database services within the SLAs and performance targets.
• Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, table and element attributes.
• Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks like performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.
• Position reports to the Austin, Texas office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer-related occupation.
• Administering databases including NoSQL technologies, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
• UNIX and understanding of network, storage, tiered application environments, and security.
• Installing, cloning, patching, and upgrading MongoDB databases and the underlying technology stack.
• Operating systems, scripting languages, data modeling and business intelligence tools.

Worksite: Austin, TX

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Travel Requirements:  This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $102,300.00 USD to $158,600.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

If interested in the position, please reference job number REF76795Q when applying through the inhouse media requisition posting, via SmartRecruiters.