Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Java L2 Applications Support

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

The Product Reliability Engineering group is looking for a bright, passionate, and dedicated employee to join in our Operations 2nd Level Applications team as Staff Site Reliability Engineer role. In this role you will be responsible for supporting various Digital projects and supporting our production transaction processing systems. These systems are truly the backbone of our business and process millions of transactions daily.

Essential Functions:-

• Support critical applications and ensure the stability of the applications by performing proactive maintenance activities.

• Engage in automation activities.

• Supporting application and infrastructure based on new technologies like Kubernetes containers, Kafka, Graphana, Prometheus, Elastic etc.

• Perform root cause analysis and remediation.

• Good knowledge on Cloud and VM ware infrastructure.

• Good knowledge on F5 Load Balancer, TCP layer architecture.

• Good Experience on Kubernetes and Docker (preferable OpenShift, MKE vendor products).

• Basic knowledge of ansible and YAML scripting.

• Requires working knowledge of production support processes such as incident/change/problem management, call triaging, escalation procedures and such.

• Ability to write and maintain scripts to monitor system activity including application smoke test activities during pre and postproduction implementations.

• Monitor application performance (e.g. memory, logging, latency).

• Writing SQL queries for data analytics.

• Code release into Test and Production environments using industry standard deployment tools.

• Support application deployment using chef/Jenkins.

• Support Client escalated issues specific to applications. (e.g. increased latency, transactional issues, features not working as expected etc. ).

Implement and maintain Performance monitoring dashboards using industry standard tools (Splunk, Thousand Eyes, Keynote, Runscope, Ghost inspector, Evolven, Graphite etc..).

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 with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 6 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:-

• Experience with application support organization working in 24*7 environments.
• Experience in working with RDBMS DBs, Non-SQL DBs, MySQL DML/DDL, Oracle
• Poses exceptional analytical, problem solving skills, oral and written communication skills
• Basic level knowledge on Active/Active setup Application
• Experience in Production support working in a globally distributed team.
• Working experience on Java, J2EE and Python technologies.
• Experience with Service Now and ticketing workflows is preferred.
• Working experience with monitoring tools like SPLUNK or any other monitoring tools/processes will be advantageous.
• Prior working experience with Card and transaction domains will be advantageous.
• Should have a technical and business mindset
• ISO 9000 and ITIL experience will be advantageous.
• Understanding of core networking concepts such as routing, protocols, subnets, DNS, Certificates, Load balancer and firewall.
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, application design, and implementing major components for large projects.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: eeebe74f-3bf0-4c6e-a3af-52185c80ecd3

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-24T09:19:04