Staff SW Engineer

Visa•Foster City, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. We need a highly motivated and skilled Co-ordinator/Engineer who is also proficient as a Security Analyst. This individual should be passionate about using modern software engineering principles with Java and Big Data-based technologies to deliver robust applications to our global users. The Release Co-ordinator/Engineer will handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the release/DevOps needs of Application development teams. These tasks include configuration identification, change management, build, deploy, and release artifact management, version control, and source code auditing/reporting, environment support, and troubleshooting. Additionally, this role will also involve ensuring the security of our applications and infrastructure by implementing and maintaining the latest security practices and standards. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies, and methods.
Understanding of patch management with the ability to deploy patches in a timely manner
Minimum (4) years of directly related experience
Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle processes.
2-3 years of Linux Systems Administration skills
4 years of Scripting experience (Shell, Python ,Ansible , Terraform and YAML packages)
Experience with CI/CD or GitOps pipeline Architecture ( i.e., ArgoCD, Code Fresh, Jenkins )
Knowledge in infrastructure technologies such as HP and DELL hardware (Rack servers)
Working knowledge of monitoring and logging tools: Prometheus, Graphana, Fluentbit ,Netcool, Humio
Good to have experience with Microservices based applications traffic routing ( i.e., Istio ServiceMesh )
Deep understanding of networking concepts
Excellent verbal and written communication and documentation skills

Responsibilities

Design , Develop, implement, and oversee the development of Microservices
Must have experience in AI/ML
Implement automation tools and frameworks for build, test, and deployment.
Ensure system compliance with security standards.
Coordinate all aspects of software releases, from planning to deployment.
Monitor the progress of releases, identify potential issues, and work to resolve them promptly.
Act as a security analyst, identifying potential vulnerabilities and implementing countermeasures.
Good knowledge continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development, Testing team and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for non-prod environment support.
Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity, and security.
Proven experience in release management, project management, or a similar role.
Maintain and suggest improvements to deployment scripts and tooling.
Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production.
Collaborate with software engineers to understand software delivery needs.
Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures.
Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices for release and DevOps processes.
Have a passion for delivering zero-defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.
Open to operating across various time zones to provide support for teams situated in diverse geographical locations.