Our team, IaaS Systems and Storage & Engineering (ISSE), is a critical part of Visa's Operations & Infrastructure technology organization. Our vision, mission, and purpose are:Vision - Deliver best-in-class Infrastructure on demand everywhere.  Mission - Engineer and build reliable and secure infrastructure for all type of workloads in Private/ Hybrid Cloud, utilizing open and innovative technologies at the right unit cost.Purpose - increase innovation velocity of developers and reduce infrastructure maintenance overheadThese guiding principles drive our daily efforts and align with Visa's overarching vision: The best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere.As the Senior Manager of Container Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead and manage a team of container infrastructure engineers. Your team will adopt, integrate, and engineer industry-leading technologies and management solutions for our on-premises container platform and public clouds, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, microservices architecture, and cloud based container platforms, such as EKS and GKE. You will be responsible for the solutions we provide to our customers, ensuring the availability, performance, security, and reliability of the applications running on the infrastructure we engineer, implement, and support. Additionally, you will define, advocate, and deliver standard container focused foundational services for Visa's public cloud implementation. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to design and implement solutions with a strong security posture, deliver functionalities with optimized cost, and improve developer productivity on a global scale. Continuous, iterative improvements in our processes, technology, tools, and automation will be essential to achieving these goals.Ideal Candidate:The ideal candidate is technology-savvy, with a deep understanding of container infrastructure and a proven track record of managing engineering teams. You should have a strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, container technologies, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture. Additionally, you should have good experience in designing and implementing infrastructure solutions on one of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and be proficient in programming/scripting languages (Golang, Python, Ansible, Terraform). Familiarity with CI/CD processes and experience working on open-source projects are also beneficial.Essential FunctionsInfluence the technology roadmap for infrastructure management, be the gatekeeper for the definition of implementable strategies for cloud infrastructure, drive the implementation of these strategies and delivery the projects on target, on budget and on timeDrive the technology transformation, establish and maintain standards and integration. Identify, implement and advocate open standards and APIs to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterpriseDesign and implement agile innovative infrastructure solutions/infrastructure management solutions that take advantage of technology advances that allow cost reduction, standardization and commoditizationDesign, implement and integrate management solutions to effective manage private cloud implementation(Docker, Kubernetes) at Visa’s data centers across the globe, ensure reliability, elasticity and securityCollaborate with the team to evolve the containerization ecosystem, establish and mature standards and integration for infrastructure management domains - logging, monitoring, configuration management, security compliance and orchestration. Identify and implement standard toolsets to reduce complexity and support operational goals for increasing automation across the enterpriseChampion the adoption of open infrastructure management solutions that are fit for purpose yet forward the Visa goals to keep technology relevantDefine and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance by identifying and implementing the most optimal cloud-based solutions, be the focus point for hybrid cloud infrastructure related inquiries and engagements to the teamHave the oversight of JIRA board and lead the infrastructure engineering agile team meetingsDefine and advocate a set of standard foundational services for public/hybrid cloud implementations, develop, implement and automate a set of policies for the use of cloud services, managing requests for new technologies & driving for standardization, establishing a secure cloud environment, and ensuring appropriate availability of services.Work with the team to establish our hybrid cloud engineering practices – peer code reviews & pull requests, release cadences, standardize the deployment pipeline and toolsetsCoordinate closely with M&A team to ensure the adoption of our standards by each acquired entries while offering the flexibility of levels of customization and enablementProvide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competenciesWork closely with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvementsEvangelize the cloud and container management platform standards and capabilities, gain insights of the workflows of Product Development, Engineering and Operations teams, ensure platform relevance and drive adoption, enable the application transformation from monolithic to microservicesThis is a hybrid position. 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