Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevTools)
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at Visa. Basingstoke · full-time.
Pay not stated Site Reliability Engineer salary
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What you'll do
- Serve as developers’ first contact for DevTools problems, resolving issues quickly to limit interruptions
- Keep CI-CD pipelines and integrations dependable, and work with engineers to streamline workflows through automation
- Build and maintain systems for availability, scale and performance, while improving reliability through monitoring and incident response
- Create observability coverage across metrics, logs and traces, and investigate incidents to find root causes
- Write troubleshooting and reliability guidance, then promote self-service options that reduce routine operational work
What you bring
- At least three years of relevant work experience, or a bachelor's degree; the role calls for three to eight years in SRE or DevTools support
- Hands-on skill with at least one DevTool, such as GitHub, Jenkins or Jira, plus a solid grasp of CI-CD pipelines
- Experience with Linux, networking and containers, along with cloud platforms and scripting in Python, Ansible or a similar language
- Experience supporting high-availability platforms and distributed container environments
Who this fits
This role suits a software engineering and SRE hybrid who can troubleshoot developer tools and improve platform reliability. It is hybrid in Basingstoke, with office attendance set by the hiring manager. On-call participation is required as the team provides round-the-clock operational support.
From the employer
About Us
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.
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is essential to Visa’s Cloud platform strategy. In this role, you’ll ensure our development platform and tools let engineers focus on innovation instead of infrastructure. You’ll promote observability best practices and automate resolution of recurring issues, working closely with software engineering teams to support security, availability, and performance. Responsibilities include triaging issues, collaborating on infrastructure management, and setting up monitoring for full coverage. Hands-on expertise is required, especially with major DevTools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Artifactory.
We seek a Software Engineer + SRE hybrid engineer. The ideal candidate deeply understands at least one major DevTool, quickly resolves tool-related issues in collaboration with developers, and applies systems thinking to maintain reliable applications and infrastructure while improving developer productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
- DevTools Support You will be the primary point of contact for developers using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, or Artifactory.
- Troubleshoot and resolve tool-related issues promptly to minimize developer downtime.
- Maintain and optimize CI-CD pipelines and integrations for reliability and scalability.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve workflows and automation.
- Site Reliability Engineering Design, implement, and maintain systems for high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Monitor and improve application reliability through proactive measures and incident response.
- Develop and maintain observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing).
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for incidents.
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement Partner with engineering teams to identify reliability risks and implement best practices.
- Document processes, troubleshooting guides, and reliability of playbooks.
- Advocate for automation and self-service solutions to reduce operational overhead.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor's degree in IT, CS or related field and-or 3+ Years Working Experience IT Operations and Delivery.
- Experience: 3-8 years in SRE and-or DevTools support roles.
- Beginner level programming and-or scripting in 2 or more of the following: Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, JavaScript, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Chef, Cloud Formation.
- Basic understanding of YAML, JSON, HTML, XML.
- Hands on experience in Linux and -or Windows systems and good understanding of distributed computing environments.
- Experience with CI-CD tooling such as Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Azure DevOps in a large-scale environment
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, DynaTrace, Sentry, etc. in a large-scale environment
- Experience supporting relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.), including creating and running queries, managing performance and scaling
- Working in a Platform, SRE or Production Engineering group for high availability-critical platforms-applications
- Experience managing a distributed container platform including but not limited to deployment-release management, provisioning, capacity management, workload management
- Experience managing container infrastructure and supporting development transformation to a container first model.
- This role requires oncall support as the team provides 24-7 operational support.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in at least one DevTool (GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Jira, Artifactory, ).
- Strong understanding of CI-CD principles and pipelines.
- Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and containerization (Docker-Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms.
- Programming-Scripting: Proficiency in Python, Ansible, or similar languages.
- Mindset: Strong problem-solving skills, systems thinking, self-starter, and a passion for reliability.
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.