Platform Engineer Job in Auckland Recruiting by Visa

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 #LifeAtVisa Job Description What a Platform Engineer does at Visa  The Platform Engineer is responsible for a fit for purpose platform that delights our customers by focusing on shortening feedback loops in our delivery pipeline, removing the barriers to Continuous Delivery, and providing a great developer experience for teams running robust applications in production.  With a mindset of 'Own it, Build it, Run it' the Senior Platform Engineer provides operational support to our platform systems, people and processes which can include rostered support, maintenance, and production change management. This role is also responsible for reduction of operational toil through automation so that the team can focus on bringing the greatest platform leverage to our customers instead of toiling through repetitive manual tasks  Team Summary  The Continuous Delivery Technologies team optimizes end-to-end delivery flow by improving our delivery pipeline cycle-time for our engineering teams. Why this is important to Visa  Creating a fit for purpose platform is a key enabler for our technology strategy. Our goal is to reduce the everyday friction that our wider engineering teams face in building and delivering great products for Visa's customers while also building in the necessarily capabilities to enable rapid, secure development. What you'll be doing  Help with making our systems/tools secure and compliant.  Contribute to our culture of Continuous Improvement by helping to improve our team processes and technical practices.  Write maintainable code and tests, iterating and incorporating feedback from peers.  Production deployment operations with a mindset of reducing toil and making your life easier.  Improving the security posture of the systems and processes we own. Continuous focus on engineering excellence by contributing to the foundational good of their domain and engineering overall, defining patterns and canonical examples, plus working to reduce technical debt.  What you'll bring to the team  Great communication skills and a willingness to collaborate.  Willingness to adopt a customer mindset in providing mission critical services and products to a diverse group of internal customers.  Security awareness and experience to help with making our tools/systems secure  An interest in learning new technologies and approaches as we evolve towards CD and Cloud based services in our platform.  Experience in application production operations, application deployments, application monitoring.  Leadership qualities and experience to coach and mentor less experienced engineers.  A bias towards system thinking; the ability to keep an open mind and to be influenced by others.  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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs. Qualifications Preferred Qualifications 4-6 years or more years of work experience Self-motivated with a positive attitude and a growth mindset Customer focused, for both internal and external clients A great communicator, facilitator, collaborator, and influencer Be flexible and able to adapt to a changing environment A bias towards system thinking the ability to keep an open mind and to be influenced by others Ability to balance experimentation and evidence-based decision making with pragmatism, understanding that the perfect technical solution is not always the best business outcome Looks for innovative ways to leverage both new and existing systems A willingness to work on-call and flexible working hours, when required A continuous learner What will also help:  Experience with enterprise distributed systems and SaaS applications  Continuous Integration tools and patterns Software delivery in regulated compliance focused environments Building and running internal platforms with a Product Led mindset Implementation of greenfield projects and evolution of legacy systems and processes Troubleshooting & performance optimisation experience, especially on production systems  Exposure to PCI requirements and control management Benefits:  At Visa, we invest in the whole you, financially, physically, and mentally -  Total Compensation package with competitive salary, bonus, superannuation, and kiwi saver  Education Reimbursement Programme up to NZD 5000  Parental Leave – 16 weeks, Child Bonding Leave – 14 weeks  Work from another location (Up to 4 weeks) every year??????????????? Join the Visa team?  The Auckland office is a home to 350+ technologists and product savvy teams?  Over 27 engineering teams with Visa NZ  Hybrid & Flexible working options  Opportunity to grow and develop your career, locally and globally  Advocating career growth and development for Visa Women Employees  Visa workforce is 42% females globally? 12000+ technologists working from 18 sites globally? 60% of our global workforce is in technology, risk, cyber security and product  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.