Staff Network Engineer

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**
What's it all about?**

This is a Staff Network Engineer position within the Traffic Management Global Network Engineering team. Global Network Engineering group is responsible for the strategy, architecture, design, support, availability, and reliability of Visa Inc.'s credit and debit commercial networks (i.e. VisaNet), the enterprise corporate network, the global wide area network, the extranet/Internet networks, and the voice network. Network Engineering also shares responsibility with information security for network access and security compliance of all networks.
**What we expect of you, day to day.**
- Work with Application teams to deploy their services with the optimal CDN and Global/Local Load Balancer design
Provide 3rd level technical support to Visa clients and to technical teams within Visa to resolve network issues and to support the implementation of new network solutions
- Evaluate new technology and bring opportunities forward that would improve the future network architecture, performance, and network services
- Ensure full compliance of Visa Key Controls and Technical Service Requirements for all network architecture, designs, and
- implementations both past and present
- Ensure all changes go through appropriate review, change control, and acceptance before implementation
- Lead development, testing and QA functions to ensure that projects are securely delivered and fulfill expectations
Provide highest level of technical consultancy to ensure problem resolution is achieved in the shortest possible timeframe
- Work with Cybersecurity to ensure solutions deployed meet Visa Security Requirements and provide technical assistance for investigation and analysis of security alerts
- Development of processes and procedures for use by the Network team and third parties in the management of network environments
- Develop and position solutions and build plans to effectively gain buy-in from all participants

Qualifications**
What we're after...**

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 4 years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD degree
**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor's Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD.
- At least 5 years of experience in a Network-related field
- Extensive experience working with F5 LTM/GTM products
- Experience working with leading CDN providers, such as Akamai, Cloudflare and/or Cloudfront
Advanced understanding of TCP/IP and HTTP protocols
- Advanced understanding of TLS protocol, including mutual authentication
- Good understanding of DNS
- Excellent communicator and team-builder, capable of establishing trust and securing partnership with all levels of the organization, from engineers to senior executives
- Excellent analytical skills, with experience rationalizing large, disparate datasets into concrete observations/recommendations, and formalizing into new network solutions
- Python and/or Bash scripting proficiency

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.