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.
IaaS Systems and Storage & Engineering (ISSE) team is part of the Operations & Infrastructure technology organization at Visa. Our vision, mission and purpose are summarized as following:
Vision - Deliver best-in-class Infrastructure on demand everywhere.
Mission - Engineer and build reliable and secure infrastructure for all type of workloads in Private/ Hybrid Cloud, utilizing open and innovative technologies at the right unit cost.
Purpose - increase innovation velocity of developers and reduce infrastructure maintenance overhead
The Opportunity:
You will be part of a team of cloud infrastructure engineers & architects who adopt, integrate & engineer industry leading technologies and management solutions for the on-prem container platform and public clouds, focusing on Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies. You will assume the total ownership of the solutions we provide for our customers to ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability of the applications running on the infrastructure we engineer, implement and support. You will also define, advocate, and deliver standard foundational services for Visa public cloud implementation, closely collaborate with stakeholders to design & implement solutions with strong security posture, deliver functionalities with optimized cost, and improve developer productivity. As a team, we will do these all at global scale. Continuous, iterative improvements in our process, technology, tools, and automation will be essential to meet those goals.

Essential Functions
The ideal candidate is technology savvy with good knowledge of Linux operating systems, container, Kubernetes and Microservices architecture. Have extensive experience driving design and implementation of infrastructure solutions on-prem, or on one of the major public clouds, such as AWS, GCP & Azure. Proficient in programming/scripting in Golang, Python, Ansible or Terraform. Familiar with CI/CD for development and deployment, with experience working on opensource projects, contributing, and committing the code. You will play a leading role to deliver secure, highly available and scalable infrastructure solution and associated automation.
Design and implement agile, innovative infrastructure solutions that leverage the latest technology advancements for cost reduction, standardization, and commoditization.
Design, implement, and manage private cloud implementations (Docker/CRI-O Kubernetes) across global data centers, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
Collaborate with the team to enhance the containerization ecosystem, establish standards, and integrate infrastructure management domains such as logging, monitoring, configuration management, security compliance, and orchestration. Identify and implement standardized toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increased automation across the enterprise
Champion the adoption of open-source infrastructure management solutions that are fit for purpose and align with the goal of keeping technology relevant.
Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance. Identify and implement optimal cloud-based solutions and serve as the focal point for hybrid cloud infrastructure-related inquiries and engagements.
Oversee the JIRA board and lead the infrastructure engineering agile team meetings.
Define and advocate for standard foundational services for public/hybrid cloud implementations. Develop, implement, and automate policies for the use of cloud services, manage requests for new technologies, drive standardization, establish a secure cloud environment, and ensure appropriate service availability.
Collaborate with the team to establish hybrid cloud engineering practices, including peer code reviews, pull requests, release cadences, and standardized deployment pipeline and toolsets.
Coordinate closely with the M&A team to ensure the adoption of our standards by each acquired entity, while offering flexibility for customization and enablement.
Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies. Promote the cloud and container management platform standards and capabilities, gain insights into the workflows of Product Development, Engineering, and Operations teams, ensure platform relevance, drive adoption, and facilitate the transformation of applications from monolithic to microservices.
Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements.
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.