Sr. Systems Engineer, Virtualization/Linux Engineering - job 5 of 18

This position is within the Operations and Infrastructure Organization at Visa. This position requires someone with a passion for Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Automation, root cause investigation and improving infrastructure agility. The candidate is required to have strong analytical abilities, work independently and have strong communication skills and working knowledge of automation tools like Ansible and Chef, monitoring tools like Splunk, BMC Patrol, Grafana, and Linux Operating system, ESX/VCNTR, Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift.

This position requires weekend shift work. The shift coverage can be either 4 days a week for 10 hours each (4x10) or 5 days a week for 8 hours each (5x8). The specific schedule will be determined based on business needs.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance, security, and availability of Systems infrastructure based on business requirements and adhering to tight operations, security, and procedural models.
• Respond to and resolve incident and problem tickets.
• Must have Strong Knowledge and experience in system monitoring techniques and tools supporting unattended operations
• Responsible for partnering with the Platform, Engineering and Delivery Teams to deliver seamless infrastructure support for all Visa business lines
• Responsible for adherence of established ITIL practice.
• Ability to operate in complex, highly-secure, and highly-available, operations environments and interact with the technology domain experts required to maintain those environments.
• Provide automation solutions of manual tasks performed by infrastructure support.
• Work closely with areas across Visa including, Operations, Engineering, Service Product office, and Global Open System Development Lines
• Ensuring team meets all SLA's and team objectives.
• Managing large heterogeneous infrastructure involving primarily Linux, and exposure to AIX.
• Lead and participate in the determination of root causes for service failure and support escalation, using knowledge and experience of VMWare ESX vSphere, Containers, HADOOP, Blade technology (Cisco/HP/Dell), IBM VIO, Linux and AIX, and GPFS.

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.