Senior Software Engineer, Release Engineering

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Visa's Release engineering team is looking for curious, creative, and dedicated technologists to join our team. You will be responsible for maintaining security and compliance of our applications. This is considered a mid-level position. Opportunities to grow your career here at Visa are limited only by your passion to learn, desire to gain expertise, and aim to excel in delivering high quality products and services. You will always be working on ways to facilitate solutions for security vulnerabilities found on applications. 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 and security requirements.

Essential Functions:

  • Maintain security and compliance of applications
  • Ensure all security findings are brought to closure and security compliant
  • Collaborate with Operations & Infrastructure, Database engineers, cybersecurity and Middleware engineers to remediate security vulnerabilities.
  • Track and coordinate all required systems and a security maintenance updates.
  • Work with technology partners in infrastructure, network, and security to create and maintain system topology and network (subnet, firewall, ports, etc..) blueprints.
  • Ensure all remediation is successfully carried out and compliance is maintained.
  • Create tickets/JIRA for supporting teams to perform your tasks and track them to closure.
  • Responsible for security remediation release schedule for the Data Platform applications (Operation Systems patches, Databases patches, Firewall remediation, network appliances, etc.) based on industry standards, data privacy laws regulations, and best practices
  • Responsible to find best possible solution for the application to close existing security exceptions
  • Actively collaborate with other teams members throughout Information Security, throughout IT, and with business owners/stakeholders throughout Visa
  • Responsible for process development and enhancement
  • Provides support regarding audit activities
  • Proactively promotes the enhancement of technology security requirements awareness across IT and business units
  • Responsible to articulate/measure/maintain non-functional requirements for applications
  • Partnering with application developers, architects, engineers, and various groups supporting Data Platform applications to drive new initiatives
  • Actively participating and delivering on new technologies evaluations and POCs
  • Script Development/Automation
  • Collaborating with project and development teams to ensure on time delivery of projects, production support plans, and knowledge transfer for long-term supportability of upgrades, enhancements, and deployments
  • Identifying existing productivity issues and opportunities, developing methods and systems to improve these functions and handling their implementation
  • Developing close working relationships and dependencies with members of teams within the organization
  • Lead infrastructure of applications using all possible information delivery channels, including capacity planning, version upgrades and maintenance
  • Find opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
  • Build and manage relationships with global and virtual teams and third parties on software development or support issues

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications:

4-5 years of software development experience with Bachelor's degree in computer science, or at least 2-4 years of work experience with an advanced degree (e.g Masters).

  • 3+ year of corresponding industry experience
  • Strong knowledge and experience with configuration of OS (Windows, Unix/Linux), databases, middleware, firewalls
  • Knowledge and experience in Identity and access management technologies.
  • Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate through all parts of the business.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to find opportunities and implement process improvements
  • Script automation development experience
  • Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tools and deep technical understanding and experience assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in multiple operating system platforms, database, and application servers.
  • Organizational and project management skills and attention to detail with the ability to manage time and prioritize projects under tight time frames
  • Highly motivated self-starter capable of working independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment, exhibiting strong relationship management and interpersonal skills
  • Strong innovative and creative solution development and deployment capability
  • Ability to understand data, synthesize information, and develop recommendations
  • Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
  • Ability to communicate sophisticated technical concepts clearly.
  • Prefer CCNA, CCSE, GIAC or CISSP certifications
  • The candidate must have solid understanding of Information Security regulations, industry requirements and generally accepted standard methodologies such as FFIEC, GLBA, PCI DSS, ISO, NIST
  • Have strong problem diagnostic and debugging skills
  • Strong communication skills with ability to convey complex ideas and document in a clear and concise way
  • Quick learner: self-starter, detailed and thorough
  • Proactive sense of urgency and “can do” attitude
  • Knowledge of the software development process

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

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