Senior Platform Engineer

1 week ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Visa Full time

**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** What a Platform Engineer does at Visa**

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.

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**
- 8-10 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**:

- 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 workin



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