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Job Description
Influence the technology roadmap for cloud infrastructure management and implementable strategies definition, and drive the implementation of these strategies and delivery the projects on target, on budget and on time
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Drive the technology transformation, establish and maintain standards and integration. Identify, implement and advocate open standards and APIs to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
Design and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions/infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditization
Mature the cloud ecosystem, establish standards, and integrate infrastructure management domains, including logging, monitoring, configuration management, security compliance and orchestration. Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
Champion the adoption of open infrastructure management solutions that are fit for purpose yet forward the Visa goals to keep technology relevant
Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance by identifying and implementing the most optimal cloud-based solutions, be the focus point for hybrid cloud infrastructure related inquiries and engagements to the team
Define and advocate a set of standard foundational services for public and hybrid cloud implementations, develop, implement and automate a set of policies for the use of cloud services, managing requests for new technologies and driving for standardization, establishing a secure cloud environment, and ensuring appropriate availability of services
Collaborate with the global team to establish our hybrid cloud engineering practices - peer code reviews and pull requests, release cadences, standardize the deployment pipeline and toolsets. Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements
Coordinate closely with Visa Family of Companies team to ensure the adoption of our standards by each acquired entries while offering the flexibility of levels of customization and enablement
Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to cross-functional teams to build cloud competencies
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience
• 8 years of experience as DevOps engineer automating infrastructure deployment
Preferred Qualifications
• 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
• 3 years of experience of leading an engineering team focused on architecting, engineering and implementing infrastructure solutions on-prem and in the cloud
• Strong leadership for infrastructure engineering team, effectiveness in building and growing the team, coaching, motivating team member
• Experience managing production container ecosystems – Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd), CNI(Calico, Cilium) and CSI drivers
• Proven record of defining technology roadmap, executing defined technology strategies and driving adoption across a large enterprise
• Experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on one of the public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Extensive experience automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Golang, and Python), with configuration management tools (Ansible), service registry and discovery tools (Consul and Vault, etcd), infrastructure orchestration tools (Ansible, and Terraform), and automated imaging tools (Packer)
• Experience designing, building, and/or running production systems in cloud or migrating to the cloud such as AWS, practicing infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment, automated testing, autoscaling, and self-healing.
• Experience leading, enabling modernization efforts for applications adopting modern approaches (e.g., REST APIs, micro-services, etc.)
• Experience using and optimizing monitoring and observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana), log aggregation systems (Splunk, Fluentd, Opensearch), familiar with emerging OpenTelemeter standards
• Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline architecture (Jenkins, GitLab, Drone) including deployments into Kubernetes environments using tools such as ArgoCD or Flux through GitOps practices
• Experience with network and application protocols (e.g. TCP, HTTP) and databases, including one RDBMS and one columnar or NoSQL store
• Able to understand the security tools and best practices: CIS Benchmarking, OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, system auditing
• Strong analytical skills, able to work independently to troubleshoot, solve complex engineering problems. Make independent judgments/decisions within established guidelines
• Experience performing full stack load testing to identify and address hardware, network, system, or application bottlenecks
• Self-starter possessing excellent time management skills, able to manage multiple activities simultaneously while requiring little or no oversight and/or direction.
• Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance
• Communicate well with others both verbally and in writing and be able to effectively interact with peers, management and other outside contacts
• High degree of initiative and sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis
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.