What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer – Sr. Consultant position at Visa?
Job Description and Responsibilities
Visa’s Technology Organization is a dynamic community of problem solvers and innovators dedicated to redefining the future of commerce. We manage one of the world’s most advanced processing networks, handling over 65,000 secure transactions per second across 80 million merchants, 15,000 financial institutions, and billions of individuals. By joining us, you will engage with complex distributed systems and address large-scale challenges in new payment flows, business and data solutions, cybersecurity, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:
As a Site Reliability Engineer – Sr. Consultant, you should bring a well-rounded skill set that includes expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices, and security protocols. You should have experience with cloud migration, automation tools, and applying Generative AI to improve operational efficiencies. Proficiency in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), observability tools, and distributed caching systems is essential.
As a SME in Visa’s Operations and Infrastructure division, you will join our Global PRE team to design, enhance, and build a highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure in an agile environment. You will collaborate with supportive and challenging colleagues daily. You will take lead roles on projects to ensure the reliability and performance of our services, platforms, RESTful APIs, container-based distributed systems, and cloud services.
Key skills for this role include team mentorship, and the ability to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Strong communication skills are vital for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams. The Site Reliability Engineer – Sr. Consultant should possess problem-solving abilities, drive innovation, and prioritize tasks efficiently. Experience in fast-paced 24x7 environments, demonstrating adaptability and confident decision-making to address the evolving needs of the team and the organization, is crucial. Experience in swiftly resolving live production issues is essential to maintain system reliability and performance.
This is a hybrid position, allowing employees to alternate between remote and office work. Hybrid employees are expected to work from the office 2-3 days a week, as determined by leadership and site requirements, generally spending 50% or more of their time in the office based on business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the security and safety of application services and platforms. Spearhead the enhancement of operational practices focusing on efficiency, security, and excellence.
- Maintain zero downtime by swiftly addressing any issues to ensure environments are always operational. Conduct rapid root cause analysis and implement remediation in production environments after thorough testing.
- Oversee all activities within the environment, including deploying new code.
- Foster an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative team culture.
- Build strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including product management, engineering, design, and operations.
- Communicate effectively with both technical and business partners to create frameworks for discussing complex topics.
- Regularly analyze the environment and promote the adoption of automation and Generative AI to stay competitive.
- Lead cloud infrastructure and GenAI adoption and migration, ensuring a seamless transition with minimal downtime.
- Run problem bridges by collaborating with different functional and technical teams, escalating issues as needed for timely resolution.
- Proactively sharing important context and information with relevant stakeholders.
By fulfilling these responsibilities, the Site Reliability Engineer – Sr. Consultant will ensure the PRE team delivers a robust, secure, and efficient infrastructure that supports application services and platforms, meeting the organization's evolving needs.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.