Lead DevOps Engineer- Data Product Development Release Engineering Team at Visa in Austin, Texas

Job Description:

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind - making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and merchants around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. Our advanced technology are enabling merchants to accept payments online and in store with first-class reliability and security. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Data Product Development (DPD) Release Engineering team is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team. This position is for a Lead Software Engineer role with very solid test automation, CICD and container solutions who will focus on creating new frameworks to mature our processes. You will be developing solutions that automate the release cycle from code check-in to deployment. Your solution will focus on eliminating wait times, manual handoffs, and automating as much as possible in order to improve the overall efficiency and reliability of our release and deployment processes.

We are looking for someone with serious Software Development skills, strong interest in DevOps and Test Automation, and a passion for continuously delivering reliable software. You will work with fellow Development, Test engineers and Product to design and implement Continuous Integration and Test Automation tools and frameworks that are critical in ensuring delivery of products with the highest levels of quality and reliability. This is considered a senior level position. Opportunities to grow your career here at Visa are limited only by your passion to learn, desire to gain expertise, and drive to excel in delivering high quality products and services.

You will be an integral part of the agile development team, and will be assigned a variety of tasks pertaining to design, build and test of software applications and services. Your main focus will be on Test Automation tasks, however, other tasks will be assigned depending on need such as code design tasks, software coding tasks, bug fixes, or manual testing of new functionality. You will always be working on ways to facilitate better quality through the design, implementation, and execution of automated build and test systems. This role is for an individual whose experience with software development forms a strong basis for designing automated test solutions that will ensure that we deliver high quality services. You will have a passion, not only for understanding how the solutions work from a functional standpoint, but also for digging into the code to really understand what has been built to verify that the solution meets quality standards as well as functional requirements. Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start. You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything. You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new technologies/tools and at times refactoring existing tools/processes for performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers and application teams. The candidate will perform hands-on activities including design, documentation, development and test of new technologies. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs. This position will be based in Austin, TX and reporting to Sr.Director of Release Engineering team.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions:

• Architecting, maintaining, and streamlining of continuous Delivery solutions for end to end CICD pipeline setup of one click build deployments




• Automate testing and deploying releases to multiple environments.




• Work directly with agile Application Development teams to provide daily support aligned with a model of Continuous Delivery




• Promote a Dev Ops culture through building relationships with Development & Operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process




• Ensure continuous availability of applications and related integrations in all pre-production environments.




• Ensure continuous availability of various tools supporting SCM & Release Management including Source Control, Continuous Integration, & Change Management.




• Maintaining source control branches and performing integrations with merge conflicts.




• Facilitating and championing the quick resolution of problems found during the daily build and deployment efforts.




• Creating and maintaining documentation of the build/release process.




• Investigating tools and processes and integrating them so that they can improve the reliability, stability and efficiency with which we release our services.




• Working closely with the development team to integrate new deployment processes and strategies to meet our feature requirements.




• Identify data needs and scenarios for Integration testing and end to end testing including areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, logging capabilities or usability.




• Design and write test cases, automate test execution and report test results to development and product teams.




• Develop new / extend existing Build and Test Automation tools, and frameworks as needed to make projects provide complete Continuous Integration environment.




• Become an expert at finding bugs, breaking things, helping development diagnose and fix the bug, improve the automated test, and do it over and over again.




• Work on dashboard solutions/metrics for the group. Lead the development and implementation of it.




• Work closely with senior leadership, project management, and Development teams within the company to develop, update, and implement Release Engineering practices for DPD.




• Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of process and risks associated.




• Lead the team and ensure consistent, predictable & productive execution for high quality deliverables




• Participate in quality forums held company wide to gain and share knowledge and best practices from different groups.




• Identify appropriate technology solutions to meet platform requirements by performing technological evaluations and implementing proof of concepts




• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques and software installs.




• Support trouble-shooting issues in both the test and production environments.

Basic Qualifications:

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  10-12 years of software development experience with Bachelor's degree in computer science, or at least 8-10 years of work experience with an advanced degree (e.g Masters).

  
  
  
  

  Preferred Qualifications

  
  



• 10+ years of Experience in at least one programming language or technology including, but not limited, to Java, C/C++, Python, Javascript, etc.

• 6+ years of Experience with source control, build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Subversion, Maven, Hudson, GIT, Chef, Ansible.




• 6 + years of Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Unix Shell, Perl, Groovy




• Extensive hands on experienceof test automation tools and frameworks such as Karate, Cucumber, Ruby, Selenium, Robot, etc.




• Hands on implementation experiencein Docker and Kubernetes




• Experience working in Agile environments to work in a fast-paced environment where iterative changes may need to go out in rapid succession.




• Ability to influence Sr. Leadership and other partners in Visa on direction of engineering efficiencies through data, roadmaps, short/long term plans, etc.




• Knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (XML, SOAP, JSON, REST, etc.).




• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and attention to detail.




• Effective verbal and written communication and documentation skills.

Work Hours

The incumbent must make themselves available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements

The position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0% of the time.

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, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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