Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Java Apps Support, Scripting exp

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.   

The Opportunity:

We are looking for talented, curious, and energetic Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

You will be a member of the Service Automation Team, which is tasked with analyzing and identifying recurring issues encountered by various application teams within the organization. Your role will involve developing frameworks to provide comprehensive solutions, thereby reducing manual effort and time spent by the team.

The Work itself:

You will be a member of the Service Automation Team, which is tasked with analyzing and identifying recurring issues encountered by various application teams within the organization. Your role will involve developing frameworks to provide comprehensive solutions, thereby reducing manual effort and time spent by the team.

You will have opportunities to engage with various technologies, participate in code development and scripting, learn new technologies, and gain insights into diverse application designs and architectures.

You will be collaborating with various teams including Developers, DevOps, Architects, and Product Reliability Engineers.
 

Essential Functions:

The Skills You Bring:

Collaboration and Teamwork: Possess robust interpersonal skills and are adept at both written and verbal communication. You have a strong inclination towards teamwork and can effectively collaborate with a globally dispersed virtual team.

Learning Capacity: You are a fast learner, readily picking up new technologies and tools, and can disseminate this knowledge to others.

Adaptability and Innovation: You are comfortable pushing boundaries and exploring beyond traditional solutions. You embrace challenges, new technologies, and innovation.

Decision-making: You have the ability to prioritize, multitask, and deliver quality work on time. You can effectively plan and make informed decisions on execution timelines and maintain focus under stressful situations.

Personal and Professional Growth: You are highly self-motivated and possess a strong sense of ownership. You have a keen interest in learning new technologies and business concepts to facilitate personal and organizational growth.

Professional Ethics: You must have strong business ethics, self-discipline, and trustworthiness, particularly when handling highly sensitive and confidential data in a live production environment.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in Development or DEVOPS role.
• Strong understanding and working experience with any of the programming languages either Java, Spring, or .NET.
• Strong knowledge on APIs development and usage.
• Very Good knowledge on any of the Data bases (MySQL, MSSQL or Oracle)
• UNIX Shell scripting, PowerShell, Python or Any other scripting knowledge is mandatory.
• Should be having Knowledge on Messaging Queues (IBM MQ, AMQ, Kafka etc.)
• Experience in supporting systems that run on Linux & Windows Environment.
• Experience with any of the web-related technologies including Apache, Tomcat, IIS.
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing major components for large projects.
• Basics of networking concepts related to Load balancing, Routing, Protocols, Subnets, DNS
• Knowledge of SSL certificates, monitoring tools, alert escalation, customer / vendor management etc.
• Conversant with monitoring tools like Splunk/ Catch point.
• Build tools to automate production support activities that enable efficiency and productivity of Service desk and other operations groups.
• Familiarity and/or experience in implementing ITIL concepts in addition to technical aptitude are highly valued.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes, containers, and GEN AI is preferred.

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.