Staff Site Reliability Engineer Big Data Platform Engineer(PythonCloud)

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.

The Opportunity:

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in Product Reliability Engineering you will be part of a team that maintains and support Open Source HadoopBig data Kafka Platforms Cloud ensuring their availability performance reliability and improving operational efficiency. You will be responsible for driving innovation for our partners and clients within Visa and globally.

The Work itself:

Essential Functions:

Design build and manage Hadoop and Kafka clusters on Cloud - AWS GCP and Azure.

Manage and optimize Open-Source Apache Hadoop Big Data and Kafka clusters for high performance reliability and scalability.

Develop tools and processes to monitor and analyze system performance and to identify potential issues.

Collaborate with other teams to design and implement Solutions to improve reliability and efficiency of the in-premise Hadoop Big data and Cloud platforms.

Effective root cause analysis of major production incidents and the development of learning documentation.

The role involves planning and performing capacity expansions and upgrades in a timely manner to avoid any scaling issues and bugs.

The successful candidate will tune alerting and set up observability to proactively identify issues and performance problems.

The role involves creating standard operating procedure documents and guidelines on effectively managing and utilizing the platforms.

 The person will leverage DevOps tools disciplines (Incident problem and change management) and standards in day-to-day operations.

The individual will concentrate on developing tool and automations. This can be achieved through Ansible Python Java or by using any other programming language.

 The Skills You Bring:

 Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale.

 Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries hacking beyond traditional solutions.

 Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g. Java python) or full stack development

 Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies

 Partnership: Experience collaborating with Engineering Application and Other functional teams.

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

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Experience with managing and optimizing Hadoop Big Data and Kafka clusters in production environment
Demonstrated experience with AWS EMR MSK and GCP Hadoop and Kafka cloud platforms
Proficient in one of programming languages Python Java or full stack development.
Familiarity with big data tools (Big Data Spark Kafka etc.) and frameworks (HDFS MapReduce etc.).
Strong knowledge in system architecture and design patterns for high-performance computing.
Good understanding of data security and privacy concerns.
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Observability: knowledge on observability tools like Grafana Opera and Splunk.
Linux: understanding of Linux networking CPU memory and storage.
Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills along with superior verbal and written communication abilities.

Additional Information :

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 124700.00 to 180650.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and 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 :

Full-time