Staff Systems Engineer - job 1 of 4

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 Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Systems Engineer (multiple openings) in Ashburn, VA to:

• Collaborate with Cloud Architects and fellow engineers to actively contribute to our public cloud strategy and standards.
• Design and implement agile, innovative cloud infrastructure and management solutions that harness technology advancements for cost reduction, standardization, and commoditization.
• Adopt a cloud-native approach for the development of greenfield solutions, considering business goals, objectives, and requirements, while ensuring the integration with legacy solutions.
• Identify and utilize standard toolsets to lessen complexity and further operational goals for extensive automation across the enterprise.
• Work with the team to mature the cloud ecosystem, establish standards, and integrate infrastructure management domains - including logging, monitoring, configuration management, and orchestration.
• Promote continuous, iterative enhancements in our processes, technology, tools, and automation to achieve objectives.
• Incorporate security measures into all project stages - design, implementation, and operations.
• Define, document, and maintain standard designs and processes, ensuring documentation is updated with each modification or change.
• Provide knowledge transfer to peers and operations team on architecture, design, and delivery of public cloud solutions.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to peers and the operations team on public cloud solution architecture, design, and delivery.
• Mentor junior team members to enhance team competencies and skills.
• Position reports to the Ashburn, VA office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field, followed by 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Systems Engineer-related occupation.
• Alternative, Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2 years of experience in a Systems Engineer-related occupation.
• Position requires experience in the following skills:
  • AWS/GCP/Azure services such as networking, compute, and database.
  • Designing, building, and running production systems in cloud or migrating to the cloud, practicing infrastructure as code, automated testing, autoscaling, and self-healing.
  • Infrastructure as code with tools including Terraform, Pulumi, and configuration management tools including Ansible.
  • Managing production container ecosystems, including Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd), and CNI (Calico or Cilium).
  • Cloud-native monitoring and APM tools, including AWS Cloudwatch, GCP Cloud Operations Suites, and Azure Monitor.
  • Using and optimizing monitoring and observability systems and experience in Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemeter standards.
  • Understanding of the Software Development Process, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools Jenkins and GitLab.
  • Container deployments in Kubernetes environments using ArgoCD or Flux.
  • Security tools and standard methodologies, including CIS Benchmarking, OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, and system auditing.

Worksite: Ashburn, VA

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 $147,784.00 USD to $199,300.00 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.