Senior Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Engineer @ Visa Inc

If youre passionate about and experienced with cloud and containerization, you can be part of ISSE Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Team, which is responsible for the private cloud environment and associated infrastructure management solutions at Visa, specifically in designing and deploying multi-hypervisor based cloud and Kubernetes based container platforms.

Your main focus will be on Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies. As part of this self-driven team, you will have total ownership of the solutions we provide for our customers making availability, performance, security, and reliability critical to our success. We need to do this all at global scale, as well, so continual, iterative improvements in our process, technology, tools, and automation will be essential to allowing us to meet those goals as well as focus on the things that add value for our players.

The ideal candidate is a technology savvy with deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Microservices, Golang, Python, Ansible and CI/CD process. Able to work on opensource projects, able to contribute and commit the code to upstream opensource projects. Candidate should have familiarity with Opensource projects such as Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Prometheus/Grafana, Opentracing, and Servicegraphs.

Specific Responsibilities will include:

Design and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions/infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditization

Design, implement and integrate management solutions to effective manage private cloud implementation(Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh) at Visa s data centers across the globe, ensure reliability, elasticity and security
Identify, evaluate, select and engineer highly reliable container scheduling and orchestration solutions that are extremely secure enabling Operations to manage environments simply and effectively, ensure on time, on budget, and quality delivery of shared container platform

Collaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem, establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains - logging, monitoring, configuration management and orchestration. Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise

Champion the adoption of open infrastructure management solutions that are fit for purpose yet forward the Visa goals to keep technology relevant
Work closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements

Evangelize the cloud and container management platform standards and capabilities, gain insights of the workflows of Product Development, Engineering and Operations teams, ensure platform relevance and drive adoption, enable the application transformation from monolithic to microservices

Bachelors degree or higher
At least 5 years of experience as DevOps engineer working on automating infrastructure tasks.

At least 2 years in the cloud, and in containers with focused on DevOps and service-based systems engineering
At least 1 years of experience managing production Kubernetes infrastructure with CNI, and CSI drivers

Extensive experience automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Golang or Python), with configuration management tools (Ansible), service registry and discovery tools, infrastructure orchestration tools (Ansible, and Terraform), and automated imaging tools (Packer)

Experience in automating at least one public cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Experience using and optimizing monitoring and trending systems (Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana), log aggregation systems (ELK, Splunk, Fluentd), and their agents.
Basic experience in Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd)
Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline architecture (Jenkins, GitLab, Drone) including deployments into Kubernetes environments using tools such as Flux or Keel.

Experience with developing microservice-based HTTP applications and servers
Able to understand the security tools and best practices: CIS Benchmarking, OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, system auditing

Experience performing full stack load testing in order to identify and address hardware, network, system, or application bottlenecks
Networking experience both within Linux and with Cisco or Juniper network routers and switches

Desire to be part of an incredible team. That means being someone the team can count on, who communicates honestly and respects others and their views, who adapts quickly to changing priorities, drives positive change, and is committed to giving 100%.

Strong analytical skills, able to work independently to solve complex engineering problems. Make independent judgments/decisions within established guidelines
Communicate well with others both verbally and in writing and be able to effectively interact with peers, management and other outside contacts
The ability to gather and understand business requirements, translate them into technical/operational requirements

High degree of initiative and sense of urgency, comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis
Self-confident, commands technical authority and respect at all levels
Demonstrable teamwork attitude, ready to initiate collaboration and resolve conflicts