Job Description

For Visa to deliver on the vision of the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere, the Operations & Infrastructure (O&I) group must provide best-in-class infrastructure services that are secure, scalable, continuously available, and run on software-defined infrastructures. The O&I group offers an exciting opportunity to work on latest technologies where the industry is going through major innovations such as cloud computing. In essence, Infrastructure as Code. As a Sr. Software Engineer in O&I, you will have an opportunity to play a key role in application life cycle. For example, building infrastructure which includes compute, storage, database and middleware, tuning environment per application need, monitoring components, compliance checks and security remediation, etc.

The Middleware Engineering & Operations provides end-to-end design, build and support services for the Web and Middle-tier platforms, which comes under PaaS (Platform as a Service). For Visa to deliver on the vision of the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere, this group must provide best-in-class platform services that are secure, scalable, and continuously available. Selected candidate would work alongside other Middleware engineers and technical team members, to design, develop, support, and enhance internal and external facing applications built on top of various Middleware and Integration platforms e.g. Tomcat, Apache, WebSphere MQ, Kafka, IBM DataPower, and Connect Direct. 

We are looking for a smart, capable Sr. Software Engineer who will be working in the Middleware Engineering & Operations group managing Web & Application tier of middleware products. You will be primarily responsible for developing distributed system solutions, providing expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy. Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions. You will work closely with development partners, engineering, and operation teams who jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability. As an experienced engineer, you will develop and enhance platform best practices to ensure the Kafka platforms can effectively meet performance & SLA requirements. You will also be responsible for overseeing end-to-end agile design, scoping, implementation, and work closely with the development and Service design teams to deliver and resolve issues for Middleware Components stack. It would be best if you had experience working in large-scale data environments, which included real-time and batch processing requirements. Applicant should also have an excellent foundational knowledge of web/App tier (Tomcat/JAVA/Httpd, etc.), and comfortable implementing Security, compliance industry standards and best practices.

Essential Functions

Some of the things you may work on as a Sr. Software Engineer in O&I include:

• Work in a fast-paced environment while ensuring the uptime of VISA's products to customers
• Participate in designing innovative solutions for highly secure and available environments deployed on Tomcat, Apache, WebSphere MQ, Kafka, Connect Direct, Datapower and the like.
• Work with other partners in the organization such as support, development, and user groups to manage requests from the perspective of platform design, build and support.
• Work with vendors for problem resolution.
• Lead problem resolution and improvement efforts
• Drive constant interaction with developers, architects, and project managers
• Monitor system health and performance
• Able to work effectively as part of a highly collaborative team while independently prioritizing individual daily activities
• Troubleshoot extremely complex and time critical technical incidents on the Middleware and Integration Platforms