Staff Systems Engineer - Cloud & IAC

You will translate business goals into automation, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and platform guardrails, focusing on reducing operational toil, optimizing cloud spend (FinOps), and enhancing platform reliability.

In your role you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by:

• Delivering End-to-End technical project consulting, engineering, deployment and support
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain cloud solutions using automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Platform Engineering: Build self-service platforms and standardized patterns that allow product teams to deliver services efficiently.
• Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce robust security measures, including IAM roles, network security, and compliance monitoring.
• FinOps & Cost Optimization: Analyze usage and costs to optimize resource allocation, including rightsizing and auto-scaling.
• Incident Management: Provide expert-level troubleshooting, incident response, and performance monitoring.

Must haves:

• Deep & wide experience : Design, deployment, administration, remediation & troubleshooting across:
• AWS & Azure - Cloud native services
• Containerisation, EKS and other orchestration technologies.
• Automation tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Foreman, Chef, Salt, Puppet, Jenkins, etc)
• Build system, source code management; e.g. GitLab / GitHub / TeamCity etc
• Automated OS & Application patching technologies
• Linux operating systems, including its architecture, installation, hardening, troubleshooting, patching and operational maintenance.
• Exposure working in a highly audited, compliance-led environment

Good familiarity:

• Experience within a compliance-driven, audited environment
• IP networking, DNS, and firewalling
• Python, shell scripts and command-line tools
• Process-driven ITSM tooling (Jira, ServiceNow or similar)
• Clear & strong verbal & written communication skills and natural willingness to collaborate across teams and organisations.
• Management & optimisation of AD, Hyper-V, RDS, Azure, MS365, Teams, Sharepoint, WSO, AWS, MFA, SSO.
• Authoring technical, peer & user-facing documentation.
• Experience of DevOps / CICD environments

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.