Sr. Devops Manager

Sr. Devops Manager – Visa – Bogota, D.C., Capital District, Colombia 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. We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in creating high-volume, high-performance, and highly available solutions to improve customer experience and will foster a collaborative team environment, ensuring effective communication and performance across the DevOps team. Responsibilities Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology. Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class cloud solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings. Actively contribute to product quality improvements and valuable service technology. Continuous integration and delivery process automation design and development. Building and setting up new development and CI/CD tools and infrastructure. Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers. Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes. Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results. Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats. Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes. Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions. Essential Functions Lead and manage the DevOps Team. Collaborate with product owners, solution architects, engineering managers, DevOps, and O&I to gather and refine product requirements. Provide domain expertise on cloud technologies, IaC, Serverless architectures, Kubernetes (K8), and CI/CD. Design implement robust infrastructure that supports platform and application solutions. Identify and resolve issues to maintain optimal system performance and accelerate automation of the release process. Maintain and evolve CI/CD processes and build new development tools. Provide Level 2 technical support, perform root cause analysis for lower environment incidents, and develop scripts to automate visualization. Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: 8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience. Preferred Qualifications: 9+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree OR 7+ years with an Advanced Degree OR 3+ years with a PhD. Strong knowledge in GCP architecture, security and services. Knowledge of GCP and Azure architecture, security and services. Experience in automation of code deployment across multiple platforms. Strong knowledge in Linux environments (RHEL 6/7, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS). Engineering experience building production infrastructure using code and repeatable designs. Experience developing solutions using automation tools and IaC (e.g., Pulumi, Terraform). Experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, GKE, and/or Swarm. Knowledge of ITIL, SOC 2 and PCI processes and experience evolving to Agile development lifecycles. Knowledge of networking, load balancing, and high availability. Ability to articulate complex architectures to non-technical audiences. Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL; experience with GCP Spanner is a plus. Experience with database administration, schema design, query analysis, performance tuning, and optimization (Postgres/MySQL/Oracle). Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, PCI compliance, etc. 5+ years system architecture experience with ability to read code and understand coding logic. 2+ years experience supporting mission-critical production applications. Skills Proficient with git and git workflows. Good knowledge of Go and/or Python. Working knowledge of databases and SQL. Problem-solving attitude. Collaborative team spirit. Communication. Stress management. Resilience. Continuous improvement. Languages English – written and spoken proficiency. Spanish – native. 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. Senior Level Mid-Senior level Employment Type Full-time Job Function IT Services and IT Consulting #J-18808-Ljbffr