Solutions Designer, Automation

Visa; Highlands Ranch (CO); On-site; USD 124,300 - 198,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Job summary

Visa is seeking a senior solutions engineer to design and deliver highly available infrastructure for on-prem and cloud platforms, focusing on Kubernetes, automation, and GenAI-enabled workflows. You will interface with Product, Engineers, and Architects to translate ideas into robust technical designs.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience and strong expertise across containers, cloud platforms, and IaC tooling, with a security- and reliability-focused mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• Or 2+ years with an Advanced degree (Masters/MBA/JD/MD).
• Or 0 years with a PhD.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineers, Architects) to formalize roadmaps and priorities.
• Translate ideas into clear technical requirements and designs.
• Work across Containers, Networking, VMs, Storage, Messaging, Databases, and Software Development domains.
• Extract and manipulate data to inform complex technical decisions.
• Improve efficiency of workflows via automation, scripting, and GenAI tools.
• Engage in GenAI activities: skill creation, MCP/prompt engineering, code development.
• Lead cloud-based solutions (private/public) with reference architectures, estimates, and deployment.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containers

Networking

VMs

Storage

Databases

Software Dev

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

CI/CD

Git

Jenkins

Cloud platforms

GenAI

Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree (MBA/JD/MD)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Jenkins

Job description

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

You will be part of a dynamic team of solution engineers who deliver, integrate & architect highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions for on‑prem container platform, public clouds, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud technologies and automation skills. As trusted advisors and partners of our stakeholders drive solutions to production through strong technical guidance and execution excellence maximizing developer productivity.

Essential Functions

• You will play a key role to deliver secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure solutions
• Work closely with cross‑functional groups including internal stakeholders (Product Managers, Engineers, Architects, etc.), and external customers and vendors to formalize roadmaps & priorities
• Transform ideas into clear technical requirements to formalize technical designs
• Experienced across multiple technical domains including: Containers, Networking, VMs, Storage, Messaging, Databases, and Software Development.
• Experience extracting and manipulating data to inform complex technical decision making
• Able to improve efficiency of complex workflows/processes via automation, scripting, and GenAI tools.
• Experience with GenAI including, skill creation, MCP creation/consumption, prompt engineering, code development.
• Drive initiatives to define, design, and implement cloud‑based (private and public) solutions including reference architectures, estimates, and deployment (and some AWS/GCP or something experience, know what a well architected app is)

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Well versed with Well Architected Applications driving Operation excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance efficiency, Cost Optimization
• Expertise with critical production applications, running at scale, with high reliability and security constraints.
• Expertise in at least one of the following technical domains: Containers, Networking, VMs, Storage, Messaging, Databases, and Software Development
• Experience in designing, building, and running production systems in cloud or migrating to the cloud and or containers, practicing infrastructure as code, automated testing, and automating infrastructure tasks (including Hybrid Cloud)
• Proficient in programming/scripting Python, Terraform, Ansible and/or other IaC frameworks
• Strong knowledge in Linux and with hands‑on experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python, Nodejs, or Golang
• Participate in technical discussions and communicate regularly with senior leadership on technical issues, program status, and escalations
• Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance and ability to make independent judgments and decisions within established guidelines.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Process including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipeline tools such Jenkins and proficient in git and VCS such as BitBucket, Github
• Proficient with container deployments and troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments
• Solid understanding of various AWS/GCP/Azure services such as networking, compute, database and storage
• Lead by example, demonstrating accountability by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards.
• Actively participate in communities/forums/guilds on architecture and new technologies
• Knowledge of AI/ML and Generative AI algorithms, and their architectural design
• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration. Able to work well in a global matrix management environment

U.S. Applicants Only

The estimated salary range for this position is $124,300.00 to $ 198,600.00 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.

Work Hours

Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements

This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.