Director - (15+ Yrs , DevSecOps )

Company Description

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

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Job Descripti

onOpen VisaNet, is the Next Generation VisaNet, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open VisaNet is one of Visas Key initiatives that will help Visa support in-country 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 architect

s.Visa is looking for a passionate Devops Engineering leader to lead 8 -10 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 worl

d.Senior DevOps leaders with significant experience in building cloud-based platforms either in public or private cloud domains are preferred. We are looking for candidates who have strong technology foundation and previous hands-on design/coding skills for this rol

e.Responsibilities includ

e: Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering, quality standards & shift left security mindse

t. Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solution

s. Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the tea

m. Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of teams deliverable

s. Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocit

y. Responsible for coaching, managing & mentoring of direct report

s. Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating, mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talen

t. Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components and solutions using core DevSecOps principle

s. Promote / evangelize GenAI adoption for developer productivity improvements across teams with relevant metrics. Develop all automation rails, as required, for measuring productivit

y. Improve DevSecOps maturity in tools and processes and measure them using relevant metric

s. 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 best-in-class CI/CD tool

s. Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery / deployment, continuous observability and release engineerin

g. 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 et

c. Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activitie

s. Responsible for the stability and high availability of both production and lower environment

s. Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve Continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment proble

ms Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and runnin

g.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 2-3 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 need

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Qualificati

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15 years IT experience with 5 years people management in the area of DevSec

Ops. Experience in implementing DevOps practices and tools to drive environment automa

tion Hands-on experience in managing enterprise class production systems in public or private cloud environments with Docker and Kubernetes requ

ired Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best pract

ices Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code rele

ase. Demonstrated hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Jenkins, Docker, Git, M

aven Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies requi

red. Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big p

lus. Hands on, deep expertise in at least one programming language required, Java or Golang prefe

rred Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell (bash, ksh), Python, Jenkins/Groovy, Go or simi

lar. Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externa

lly. Working experience in cloud computing, PaaS, IaaS, and related areas are highly desir

able Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big p

lus. Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protoc

• ols. Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is an advan