Job Description

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.


As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem. We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients. Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service-oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 8, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, MicroServices, Oracle, MongoDB, React JS/Angular, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Docker. As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services (VDPS) technology platforms, we are looking for a Director, DEVOPS for the Visa Payments Ltd (VPL) team who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build. The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities -

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payment's ecosystem
• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms and the 3 rails of money movement - cards, accounts and wallets.
• Understand the technology requirements, infrastructure requirements, non-functional requirements and their mapping to business KPIs.
• Have a clear understanding of different types of servers, networking, data centres available at Visa.
• Evaluate tools, infrastructure, technology options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required develop scalable CI/CD pipelines.
• Understand and align with VISA enterprise best practices and roadmaps like - containerisation, middleware standardisation and AA, AP topologies.
• Understand the nature of application and data hosted. Pay attention to the security standards at all environments.
• Engage with cross-functional co-located teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable features related to enabling higher developer productivity, environment monitoring and self-healing, and facilitate autonomous delivery teams.
• Take ownership of infrastructure planning, provisioning and monitoring responsibility for multiple components of the platform with a focus on security, high scalability (3000+ tps), and six nines of availability.
• Create operational excellence with effective automation.
• Enable business, tech and operations team with effective observability and monitoring dashboards.
• Support, troubleshoot and analyze code on all 3 layers of the stack related to infrastructure, middleware, and continuous integration and delivery frameworks.
• Actively work with engineering leads to understand the DEVOPS requirements well ahead of time to avoid provisioning bottlenecks.
• Manage and mentor a team of senior DEVOPS, TECHOPS, SECOPS engineers.
• Coordinate DEVOPS activities across the delivery of the project and work with engineers to ensure their delivery pipeline is efficiently designed to high quality standards.
• Co-ordinate and influence business and technology partners spread across different regions.
• Ability to identify, communicate and manage opportunities and risks at all environments.
• Create sustainable DEVOPS processes and practices following continuous improvement.
• Continuously learn, evaluate and educate the team with new tools and techniques
• Work collaboratively across team boundaries to share common capabilities.

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

• Degree in computer science or related field with a minimum of 10+ years of Software Development/DEVOPS Experience.
• Led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors - domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners
• Experience as a DEVOPS technical SME with ability to understand the requirements and independently assess, design and build large scale resilient enterprise platform infrastructure.
• Proficiency in two or more scripting languages of the following: Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, PHP, Bash, Shell, Perl and Node.js.
• Extensive experience in Continuous delivery and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Maven, TeamCity, Bamboo, Travis CI and Hudson
• Experience in working with multiple source code management tools like SVN, Git and Bitbucket.
• Experience in design, development, configuration, deployment, and migration of Microservices to Docker, Kubernetes clusters using SpringBoot, Jenkins 2.0, Artifactory, Argo CD, Kustomize
• Experience in working with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience in testing tools like selenium, Test NG and Junit.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, ELK, datadog, New relic, Nagios, Splunk etc
• Experience with shift left practices and performance testing applications.
• Working experience in cloud computing, PaaS, IaaS, and related areas are highly desirable.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong Automation and Problem solving skills and ability to follow through to completion.
• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• Experience in the Payment domain is a plus.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.