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.
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Job Description
Team Summary
The Site Reliability Engineer – Database Administration (DBA) is a member of a cross-functional Operations Engineering team responsible for running our Visa Spend Clarity for Enterprises production infrastructure and delivering to our platform modernization strategy.
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Essential Functions
What a Site Reliability Engineer does at Visa:
The Platform Engineer in the Operations Engineering team is responsible for finding the right way to support product engineering teams run robust applications in our environments. In this role, you will have a balance of improvements, systems operational support, patch management, lifecycle application management, security compliance, and unplanned work with contribution to strategic initiatives. To succeed you will work closely with all members of the Technology Group to make visible and improve the reliability, availability, performance, monitoring and operations of Visa Spend Clarity for Enterprises.
Why this is important to Visa
You will be part of a critical global function within our Visa Spend Clarity for Enterprises product at a time we are modernising our platform by investing heavily in cloud infrastructure and automation that enables autonomous teams innovate and scale our product to a much wider range of issuers. This is a key focus area within Visa Business Solutions with large growth ambitions.
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
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience supporting geographically disperse systems across multiple time zones
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and above, in a multi-node cluster configuration. Production environment exposure to SQL Server 2019 or above would be advantageous
• Data integration and data file handling
• Experience with performance optimization and debugging of complex SQL environments
• Experience with scripted automation of processes with PowerShell and other orchestration tools
• Knowledge of SQL Server in Public Cloud systems
• Experience with AlwaysON, Replication and Disaster Recovery methods
• Experience of SQL Cluster Management
• Enterprise tool monitoring knowledge, Redgate product experience would be advantageous
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.