Site Reliability Engineer Sr Consultant

Visa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to work within a dynamic team focused on delivering scalable payment and banking solutions. This hybrid role involves building platforms that influence products reaching billions, collaborating across functions to enhance service technology, and ensuring systems’ reliability with expectations of 8 9s availability. Ideal candidates will have a growth mindset and expertise in modern programming languages. Opportunities for mentorship and learning are emphasized.

Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps practices.
• Experience in building and managing platforms.
• Ability to lead technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Build platforms supporting code and systems for global reach.
• Collaborate multi-functionally to influence design.
• Contribute to product quality improvements.
• Develop robust products for various customers.
• Improve availability of financial services systems.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

JavaScript

Angular

React

Kubernetes

Docker

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Company Description

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

Job Description

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.

Pismo is a born in the cloud financial services company operating as part of Visa. We build and deliver cloud-based, scalable, payment and banking services for large and small banks all over the world.

The Opportunity:

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

The Work itself:

• Build platforms to support the engineering and delivery of code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design and influence how Pismo succeeds
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
• Contribute to developing the next generation of CICD processes and tooling
• Improve the reliability of financial services systems to achieve 8 9s of availability
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities

Essential Functions:

• Works directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization.
• Develops and designs advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
• Provides domain expertise on the development of cloud-based distributed systems
• Plays a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, Golang, Python, Javascript)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

• Familiarity and experience with DevOps ways of working
• Familiarity and experience building, managing, and operating platforms
• Experience leading teams of technical professionals

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.