Systems Analyst - Linux/Unix

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a member of the System Administration team, you are responsible for applying skills and exercising knowledge to perform specified support functions. As part of the team -You will support critical applications and ensure the stability of services by performing dedicated maintenance activities. You engage in automation activities, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and remediation. Knowledge of production support process including incident/change/problem management, call triaging, and critical issue resolution procedures. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Infrastructure Operations and Production Support of container technologies and orchestration platforms (Terraform, Docker UCP and Kubernetes)
• Docker/Kubernetes deployment, configuration, scaling and management of containerized applications. 
• Openshift Enterprise implementation and Support 
• ESXi, vSphere systems administration and support including vMotion, HA, DRS, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Service Manager, vCenter Configuration Manager, Site Recovery Manager 
• Working with tools surrounding the Kubernetes ecosystem such as helm, kubeadm, Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana, FluentD etc. 
• Working with configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, terraform etc.) 
• Scripting and automation skills converting manual and maintenance functions into fully orchestrated automation. 
• Sharing technical and customer knowledge in a helpful and timely fashion
• Responsible for partnering with the Platform, Engineering and Delivery Teams to deliver seamless infrastructure support for all Visa business lines
• Security Remediation process (vulnerability assessment and patch management)
• Contribute to standardize and document operational procedures 
• Responsible for adherence of established ITIL practice such as Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management 

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

2 or more years of work experience

6 to 18 months of Unix system administration/Containers experience preferred

Scripting Knowledge/ experience (Shell, Python)

Knowledge in cloud platforms preferred.

Solid understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies

Perform root cause analysis and track defect resolution to completion

Team player who is able to work independently with general supervision

Work closely with application teams in ensuring best practices are followed and the infrastructure automation can be self-service

Self-motivated with the ability to exercise independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor

Ability to coordinate activities within cross-divisional and cross-functional teams

Excellent verbal, written, skills, in particular, demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally

Ability to understand and adopt process, project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices

Be scheduled On-Call to support the infrastructure and our systems

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.