Site Reliability Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Our systems and applications are exceedingly available and exceptionally performing. We are into the business, which touch everyone's pocket if card is being used for transaction. Those transactions are happening within fraction of seconds. In addition, within a second, thousands of transactions happen concurrently. Our service is not limited to one junction, we are in 200+ countries.  

Security is our prior concern. We develop an environment, which is reliable for transactions happening more than a trillion in value. Millions of cyberattacks is always challenging and give us more confidence to make our environment more assured. Availability is ensuring to security. Our environments are available round the clock. As technology is changing day by day, we believe in continuous enhancement of ourselves and like to deep dive of present-day knowledge.

We seek an experienced IT professional to join us as a Site Reliability Engineer, working in the Product Reliability Engineering function who will:

• Perform day-to-day site reliability engineering functions including Maintenance and incident resolution for all applications, products, and services – including debit, prepaid and risk lines of business.
• Perform ongoing/Proactive analysis of various authorization, Api and UI based applications to detect potential problems and actively engage & facilitate the discussion to find the best possible solution.
• Work under direct supervision to ensure on-time delivery of projects, and production support plans for upgrades, enhancements, and deployments.
• Work closely with service partners such as product development, engineering teams to seamlessly implement the innovative solutions to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Assist in automating the routine tasks and processes to improve overall efficiency and reduce human errors.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting activities and SWAT calls and drive investigation towards swift resolution.
• Build comprehensive and robust documentation repositories that can facilitate knowledge transfer among L1/L2 peers.
• Assist the team with implementing GenAI and machine learning trends to continuously optimize the application reliability and efficiency.  
• Work with observability team to design and implement the modern Visa observability solutions such as Anomaly detection, operations intelligent platform (OIP), Fault Isolation tool (FIT) across all Verifi products.
• Participate in on-call roster to support business including off-hours. 
• Self-motivated, and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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

Basic Qualifications:-

• Bachelors degree, OR 1-2 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:-

• 1+ years of experience working with Java or .NET based business critical transaction processing, API or UI based applications.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, .NET, C#, PowerShell, Bash scripting.
• Experience with writing queries and working with MSSQL and MySQL databases.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, chef etc.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and architecture.
• Basic understanding of ITIL concepts & processes such as incident/change/problem management, call triaging, escalation procedures and such. 
• Basic understanding of Middleware components such as Kafka, Hazelcast, Qlik etc.
• Basic understanding of container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
• Basic understanding of monitoring, logging and tracing tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, riverbed etc., for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Basic understanding of AI frameworks and libraries to further enhance the application resiliency and day to day operational tasks.
• Prior experience with building tools to automate production support activities that enable efficiency and productivity of all operations groups.
• Prior experience working in shift model in 15*7 environments.
• Candidate should be comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical peer groups, including Account Management, Client Services, and other technical platform and application support groups.
• Strong work ethic, self-starter, ability to work in fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

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.