Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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. When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement. **Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.** **Job Description**: **What a Senior 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 improve and scale our CI pipeline, making build and testing faster and providing fast feedback to our engineers. - 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. - 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. - 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. **What’s in it for you?** **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 25 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 - 9000 technologists working from 18 sites globally - 60% of our global workforce is in technology, risk, cyber security and product 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**: **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 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 sta