Senior Manager -DevSecOps

Visas Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the worlds most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants 15k Financial Institutions and billions of everyday people.   While working with us youll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows business and data solutions cyber security and B2C platforms.   

Open VisaNet is the Next Generation VisaNet will push the envelope of building highly scalable secure cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using bestinclass technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visas Key initiatives that will help Visa support incountry processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from Proprietary Mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on micro services with goals of five 9s availability fault tolerance horizontal scalability and real time latency for largest scale transaction processing. Open VisaNet leverages state of the art Open Software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware such as Go Scala Apache Kafka Apache Spark Docker Kubernetes Aerospike Elasticsearch etc. and involves collaboration with exceptional group of software engineers systems performance engineers security specialists DevOps engineers payment experts infrastructure and solution architects.

Visa is looking for a passionate Devops Engineering leader to lead engineers who are part of Open VisaNet Visas Next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.  

Senior DevOps leaders with significant experience in building cloudbased platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous handson design/coding skills for this role.  

Essential Functions

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering quality standards & shift left security mindset.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.
• Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.
• Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of teams deliverables.
• Responsible for keeping the team engaged motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.
• Responsible for coaching managing & mentoring of direct reports.
• Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating mentoring and assist in hiring critical talent.
• Design develop and evolve highly scalable and faulttolerant distributed components and solutions using core DevSecOps principles.
• Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics. Develop all automation rails as required for measuring productivity.
• Improve DevSecOps maturity in tools and processes and measure them using relevant metrics.
• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable which includes CI/CD practices pipelines and workflows leveraging bestinclass CI/CD tools.
• Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of automation continuous integration continuous delivery / deployment continuous observability and release engineering.
• Championing & driving application infrastructure security efforts. Understand and own component security analysis including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques. Championing & driving application infrastructure & enterprise security efforts certificate management etc.
• Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams developers and other stakeholders for crossfunctional development activities.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of both production and lower environments.
• Design and implement APIs abstractions and integration patterns to solve Continuous integration continuous testing continuous deployment problems
• Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didnt work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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 23 set days a week (determined by leadership/site) with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
8 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree OR 11 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
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
12 years IT experience with 3 years people management in the area of DevSecOps.
Experience in implementing DevOps practices and tools to drive environment automation
Handson experience in managing enterprise class production systems in public or private cloud environments with Docker and Kubernetes required
Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns processes and best practices
Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control build process testing and code release.
Demonstrated handson experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Jenkins Docker Git Maven
Understanding of selfhealing/immutable microservice based architectures cloud platforms clustering models networking technologies required.
Experience with distributed database distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.
Hands on deep expertise in at least one programming language required Java or Golang preferred
Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell (bash ksh) Python Jenkins/Groovy Go or similar.
Excellent verbal written and presentation skills. A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally. 
Working experience in cloud computing PaaS IaaS and related areas are highly desirable
Handson experience in Splunk Sysdig Elasticsearch Prometheus Grafana etc. is a big plus.
Experience with operating system internals file systems disk/storage and networking protocols.
Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is an advantage

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 510% 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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 169100.00 to 245400.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on jobrelated factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location. In addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime