Senior DevOps Engineer

Visa; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job description

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

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

Visa is looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer who will help build Open VisaNet, Visa's Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems, that will fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.

Open VisaNet, the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed applications on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visa's Key initiatives, building Open VisaNet will involve collaboration with an exceptional group of software engineers, security specialists, DevOps engineers, payment experts and infrastructure architects.

Essential Functions:

• Develop automation tools and framework for validating highly available, fault tolerant, scalable, low latency, distributed payments transaction processing systems.
• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigms.
• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review using tools such as Checkmarx and Sonarqube. Collaborate with the security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with multiple teams across Development, Operations & Infrastructure, and Product to analyze and debug issues related to build, deployment, and infrastructure. Support cross-functional teams in integrated test efforts.
• Ensure proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices, and lessons learned.
• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in the production environment.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of lower environments.
• Champion and drive application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management, etc.

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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 60% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of a functional programming language. GoLang preferred or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).
• Hands-on experience in bash, shell & python scripting is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.
• Experience with distributed databases, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus.

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.