Sr. Network Engineer

Visa•Highlands Ranch, CO

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network and is one of the most recognized global financial services brands. Visa facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities. We offer a range of branded payment product platforms, which our financial institution clients use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit, prepaid and cash access programs to cardholders. Visa's card platforms provide consumers, businesses, merchants and government entities with a secure, convenient and reliable way to pay and be paid in 170 countries and territories. The Infrastructure Reliability Engineering Network group is responsible for the strategy, architecture, design, support, availability, and reliability of Visa Inc.'s credit and debit commercial networks (i.e. VisaNet), the enterprise corporate network, the global wide area network and the extranet/Internet networks. This role is a recognized expert within Visa responsible for contributing to the development of functional strategy. This is an individual contributor role responsible for solving unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

Requirements

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Understanding of TCP/IP network protocols, including common application protocols

Nice To Haves

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)
CCNA or working towards CCNA.
CCNP
Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Ansible, APIs)
Experience working in a hybrid cloud environment
Experience or background with AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes with networking focus
Experience working with various network tools such as SevOne, Netscout, Netbrain
Experience or background with SDN technologies such as Versa SD-WAN
Experience in developing and leading AI initiatives to enhance network automation, predictive analytics, and intelligent incident response
Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills
Experience in high-availability networks in load-balanced, n-tier application environments
Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems and network environment issues
Demonstrate ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs
ITIL certification preferred with good understanding of change, incident, and problem management process

Responsibilities

Provide technical coordination, oversight and leadership for staff and serve as escalation point for complex technical issues
Plan, design, implement and provides ongoing support of network systems of high complexity in extranet, commercial and corporate environments to fulfill the business needs
Design appropriate solutions based on environment, create detailed network designs, assess and test new and evolving technologies for performance and cost benefits
Provide second level technical support to the Visa client institutions and to technical teams within Visa to resolve network issues and to support the implementation of new network solutions
Build and maintain relationship with global and virtual teams and third parties on network development or support issues
Lead development, testing and QA functions to ensure that projects are securely delivered and fulfill expectations
Provide highest level of technical consultancy to ensure problem resolution is achieved in the shortest possible timeframe
Develop processes and procedures for use by the Network team and third parties in the management of network environments
Develop and position solutions and create a roadmap to effectively gain buy-in from all stakeholders
Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of organization and technology solutions
Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of organization and technology solutions