Senior Platform Engineer - Featurespace at Visa

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

AWS, Cloud Design, Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, Automation, CI/CD, Python, Software Development Life Cycle, Containers, Networking, Agile, Debugging, Attention to Detail, Mentoring, Problem Solving, Kubernetes

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

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 At Featurespace, we strive to be the world’s best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients’ problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile. In your role as a Senior Platform Engineer you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customer by: Designing and implementing new features and enhancements for continuous improvement of our cloud hosted solutions Design and implement a scalable, highly available and secure platform Building software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications Continually be evaluating and improving our technology and processes to increase quality, decrease costs and improve time-to-market Architectural improvements on existing platform and development of our cloud hosted solutions Support the rapid delivery of prototypes and the creation of scalable products Developing and documenting internal processes Role Responsibilities: As a company we hire people with a willingness to adapt to a variable role, so along with the key responsibilities below, we ask for ownership of any other duties as required. Technical: Expert understanding of relevant technologies and ability to write optimized, scalable code. Solves complex problems and helps others in debugging and resolving issues. Seen as a code approver at a larger scale outside of scrum team. Improves areas of the system they work on, leaves things better than they found them. Impact: Leads significant portions of projects and makes impactful contributions. Capable of driving technical initiatives and leading resolution of critical bugs. Identifies solutions to larger problems with assistance from peers. Takes part in the process of interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding within their team. Behaviour: Takes full ownership of projects and ensures success. Regularly mentors other engineers, particularly those less experienced than themselves. Able to onboard new engineers into their team. Proactively seeks and gives timely, actionable feedback in their team. Helps grow the engineering function by participating in the hiring process, giving effective feedback in scorecards and during debriefs. Promotes good practises and helps other engineers deepen their knowledge. Confidence in judgement and design making, pulls in support from around the company where needed. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager. Qualifications Must have Proven hands-on experience with deploying complex architectures using AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3 Good understanding/experience of cloud design practices around load balancing, autoscaling, high availability, performance and disaster recovery Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform and/or CloudFormation Automation/Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef & Puppet Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines Developing in high level programming languages (preferably Python) Experience of the Software Development Life Cycle (source control, testing, code review, etc) Building and deploying containers Basic networking knowledge and debugging skills Experience of Agile/Scrum methodology Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex issues Attention to detail, excellence and quality. A focus on personal achievement and responsibility. Passion to learn new skills and technologies. Ability to share knowledge Enthusiasm and an open mindset. Can-do attitude. A passion to work for one of the fastest growing fraud prevention technologies in the world Great to have: Kubernetes deployment and management Cloud-native deployment technologies such as Helm Experience with compliance standards (e.g. PCI-DSS, SOC2 or ISO27001:2103) 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. Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and implement new features for cloud-hosted solutions and support the rapid delivery of prototypes. You will also evaluate and improve technology and processes to enhance quality and reduce costs.