Staff Site Reliability Engineering - Hadoop

As a part of the Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) Organization of VISA , you will be responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. In this role, your time will be split between operations/on-call duties and developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance. Site reliability engineering (SRE) fuses the software engineering and operations disciplines.

You will have the opportunity to participate in design reviews and identify design gaps, detect problems, perform root cause analysis, identify, and implement permanent solutions. You will also have the opportunity to bring your creative curiosity and technology experience to work every day and help build dashboards, audits, alerts, and solutions.

Major Responsibilities

-The Product Reliability Engineering (PRE) group prides itself in keeping the applications and systems of Visa up and running to cater to the 24*7 needs of the business.

-Support critical applications and ensure the stability of the applications by performing proactive maintenance activities, engage in automation activities, do root cause analysis and remediation.

-Ability to write and maintain scripts to monitor system activity including application smoke test activities during production implementations.
-Develop and maintain automation tools to handle all engineering and application support tasks.

-Engage in production issue troubleshooting bridge calls, provide immediate service restoration, follow up on root cause analysis, and ensure permanent fix is implemented to avoid similar problems in the future.
-Coordinate and execute application releases and production deployments.

-Must be flexible to working in shifts and during weekends and extended hours when needed.

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 needs.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

-Hands on in Hadoop Ecosystem (Kafka, Spark, Scala, Hive) is a plus.
-Knowledge of Cloud Technologies, Kubernetes, AI, MLOPS will be
advantageous.
-Knowledge/Experience in Core Java.
-Knowledge/Experience in Golang, Rust.
-Experience in OO design and design patterns is plus.
-Experience on understanding Networking protocols and OSI stack.
-Hands on experience on DB2, MySQL, or equivalent database. Ability to
understand and write complex Database queries.
-Ability to analyze thread dumps, heap dumps, garbage collection and other
related JVM components.
-Ability to solve complex production problems and debug code.
-Working knowledge of production support processes such as
incident/change/problem management, call triaging, escalation procedures
and such.
-Experience in Shell Scripting.
-Experience in Python.
-Basic level knowledge on Akamai/Cloudflare, Active-Active setup Application.
-Deep understanding of SOA principles and Web Services technologies: REST &
SOAP.
-Experience in Web Application Development is a plus.
-Knowledge on observability tools like Grafana, Opera and Splunk.
-We count on your curiosity and creativity, to understand customer requirements
and our processes and come up with creative solutions and improvements.
-You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your juniors to reach
new heights.
-Strong Team player and ability to collaborate as part of virtual team across the
globe.
-Ability to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously and deliver on
time with quality.
-Strong self-motivation, sense of ownership and ability to retain focus under
stress during crisis situation.
-Knowledge of Payment Industry is a plus.

Additional information

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.