- Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Our team IaaS Systems and Storage & Engineering (ISSE) is a critical part of Visas Operations & Infrastructure technology organization. Our vision mission and purpose are:

Vision Deliver bestinclass Infrastructure on demand everywhere.  

Mission Engineer and build reliable and secure infrastructure for all type of workloads in Private/ Hybrid Cloud utilizing open and innovative technologies at the right unit cost.

Purpose increase innovation velocity of developers and reduce infrastructure maintenance overhead

These guiding principles drive our daily efforts and align with Visas overarching vision: The best way to pay and be paid for everyone everywhere.

As the Senior Manager of Container Infrastructure Engineering you will lead and manage a team of container infrastructure engineers. Your team will adopt integrate and engineer industryleading technologies and management solutions for our onpremises container platform and public clouds with a strong focus on Kubernetes microservices architecture and cloud based container platforms such as EKS and GKE. You will be responsible for the solutions we provide to our customers ensuring the availability performance security and reliability of the applications running on the infrastructure we engineer implement and support. Additionally you will define advocate and deliver standard container focused foundational services for Visas public cloud implementation. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to design and implement solutions with a strong security posture deliver functionalities with optimized cost and improve developer productivity on a global scale. Continuous iterative improvements in our processes technology tools and automation will be essential to achieving these goals.

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate is technologysavvy with a deep understanding of container infrastructure and a proven track record of managing engineering teams. You should have a strong knowledge of Linux operating systems container technologies Kubernetes and microservices architecture. Additionally you should have good experience in designing and implementing infrastructure solutions on one of the major public clouds (AWS GCP Azure) and be proficient in programming/scripting languages (Golang Python Ansible Terraform). Familiarity with CI/CD processes and experience working on opensource projects are also beneficial.

• Essential Functions
  • Influence the technology roadmap for infrastructure management be the gatekeeper for the definition of implementable strategies for cloud infrastructure drive the implementation of these strategies and delivery the projects on target on budget and on time
  • Drive the technology transformation establish and maintain standards and integration. Identify implement and advocate open standards and APIs to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterprise
  • 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) at Visas data centers across the globe ensure reliability elasticity and security
  • Collaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains logging monitoring configuration management security compliance 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
  • Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance by identifying and implementing the most optimal cloudbased solutions be the focus point for hybrid cloud infrastructure related inquiries and engagements to the team
  • Have the oversight of JIRA board and lead the infrastructure engineering agile team meetings
  • Define and advocate a set of standard foundational services for public/hybrid cloud implementations develop implement and automate a set of policies for the use of cloud services managing requests for new technologies & driving for standardization establishing a secure cloud environment and ensuring appropriate availability of services.
  • Work with the team to establish our hybrid cloud engineering practices peer code reviews & pull requests release cadences standardize the deployment pipeline and toolsets
  • Coordinate closely with M&A team to ensure the adoption of our standards by each acquired entries while offering the flexibility of levels of customization and enablement
  • Provide guidance thought leadership and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
  • 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

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

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
Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Information Systems Computer Engineering Electrical or other relevant STEM field
8year experience of systems engineering designing and integrating infrastructure solutions automating infrastructure deployment & lifecycle management
3 years of experience of managing an engineering team focused on architecting engineering and implementing infrastructure solutions onprem and/or in the cloud
Strong leadership for infrastructure engineering team effectiveness in building and growing the team coaching motivating team member
Experience managing production container ecosystems Docker Kubernetes Service Mesh (Istio or Linkerd) CNI(Calico Cilium) and CSI drivers
Proven record of defining technology roadmap executing defined technology strategies and driving adoption across a large enterprise
Experience architecting designing developing and implementing contained focused solutions on one of the public clouds (AWS GCP or Azure)
Extensive experience automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Golang and Python) with configuration management tools (Ansible) service registry and discovery tools (Consul and Vault etcd) infrastructure orchestration tools (Ansible and Terraform) and automated imaging tools (Packer)
Experience designing building and/or running production systems practicing infrastructure as code continuous integration and automated deployment automated testing autoscaling and selfhealing.
Experience leading enabling modernization efforts for applications adopting modern approaches (e.g. REST APIs microservices etc.)
Experience using and optimizing monitoring and observability systems (Prometheus Grafana) log aggregation systems (Splunk Fluentd Opensearch) familiar with emerging OpenTelemeter standards
Good 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 ArgoCD or Flux through GitOps practices
Experience with network and application protocols (e.g. TCP HTTP) and databases including one RDBMS and one columnar or NoSQL store
Able to understand the security tools and best practices: CIS Benchmarking OS hardening vulnerability scanning system auditing
Networking experience both within Linux and with Cisco or Juniper network routers and switches
Strong analytical skills able to work independently to troubleshoot solve complex engineering problems. Make independent judgments/decisions within established guidelines
Experience performing full stack load testing to identify and address hardware network system or application bottlenecks
Selfstarter possessing excellent time management skills able to manage multiple activities simultaneously while requiring little or no oversight and/or direction.
Proven ability to lead with passion and execute vision with little guidance
Communicate well with others both verbally and in writing and be able to effectively interact with peers management and other outside contacts
High degree of initiative and sense of urgency comfortable with ambiguity as needs change on a regular basis

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 152200.00 to 220850.00 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