Application and middleware admin

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Application administrator

Who We Do

We digitalize traditional services and turn the phone into a cutting-edge tool for payments, loyalty and banking on the go, crafting secure and powerful solutions so that transacting becomes convenient, safe and super-fast.

The Role

The System administrator is responsible for maintaining, upgrading and managing our software, hardware and networks. Resourcefulness is a necessary skill in this role. The System Administrator should be able to diagnose and resolve problems quickly, also have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary teams and users.

Responsibilities

• Work in conjunction with the client support, product owners, and development teams to provide optimal operating environment that meets the requirements and strategic business objectives.

• Responsible for managing the IT infrastructure systems for mobile financial solutions offered by the company.

• Responsible for the management of production environment, change and control management for cloud solutions and infrastructure.

• Responsible for overseeing the operations of all networks, servers, clusters, cloud services, and security management.

• Responsible for managing internal active/active service, and applications, networks, cloud services, data bases, DBMS, and security management systems.

• Responsible for production environment control systems.

• Responsible for deploying applications into different environments by following the processes and controls implemented by the organization.

• Responsible for overseeing the creation of IT documentation required by PCI, playing a key role in the implementation of best practice plans to meet IT standards and managing the continuing improvement of models to be implemented for IT Standards.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• BS in computer science or equivalent.
• Strong in knowledge in Kubernetes, containers, and platform orchestrators.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Linux environments (RHEL, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS).
• Engineering experience in building production infrastructure using code and repeatable designs.
• Experience developing solutions using automation tools.
• Experience developing automation infrastructure provisioning tools.
• Knowledge of ITIL, SOC 2 and PCI processes and experience evolving to Agile development lifecycles.
• Knowledge in cloud networking and common software.
• Ability to articulate complex architectures to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to document solutions and train operational teams on supportability.
• Experience with MySQL (Clusters, Replication and Tuning) and GCP Spanner.
• Experience with Database Administration, schema design, query analysis, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance, etc.
• 5+ years system architecture required with a demonstrated ability to read code and understand coding logic to assist in troubleshooting.
• 2+ years of experience supporting mission critical production applications.

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.