Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa is recruiting a Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant for Visa Token Services Release and Operations team to bring creative thinking and innovation to the testing of our key products. Working with a team of talented engineers you will be at the forefront of revolutionizing the testing technology and approach across exciting enterprise applications where reliability, performance, scalability, and security are vital. 

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring success in all systems. 

The role is a self-organized Lead Software Engineer with solid JAVA, J2EE, ECOMMERCE and web service development experience.  In this position, you are first and foremost a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams.  Your strong technical leadership, problem solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start.  You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code in three to five week sprints.  You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything. 

This position is based in Foster City, CA and will report to the Director of Product Development.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of development scrum teams.

• Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply release engineering best practices

• Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures

• Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications

• Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 support across multiple non-production environments.

• Responsible for continuous delivery pipeline for build & deployment

• Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem

• 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 environment support

• Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.

• Troubleshoot and support environment availability.

• Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific problem

• Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
  Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production.

• Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team

• Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team

 

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of industry experience overall with at least 4+ years of experience in release/DevOps and configuration management roles
• 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
• Build and troubleshoot build issues in java applications
• Understanding of Chef and or Ansible
• Linux and Shell Scripting and Automation
• Experience in CI tool Jenkins, both in setup and support is highly desired.
• Experience with Containers, docker EE /Kubernetes.
• Expert knowledge of CM concepts (branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.)
• Experience with structured build files/tools (ant, Maven)
• Experience with a scripting language (Perl, Python, bash)
• Advance knowledge and experience with Linux and UNIX,
• Should have working experience with monitoring tools SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes.
• Experience in working with database technologies Oracle , MySQL, Liquibase.
• Experience with GIT ( bitbucket), Jenkins.
• Experience with Project Management tools (Jira)
• Great attention to detail, someone who takes ownership and pride in all work.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and manage distributed teams.
• Thrives in a fast paced environment with continuously changing priorities
• Ability to move forward given ambiguous conditions
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Results Oriented and go getter attitude.
• Ability to manage multiple build and deployments simultaneously and prioritize time with minimal supervision
• Complete understanding of SDLC.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.