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
GNOC Network Specialist/Associate – Global OperationsVisa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:If you think you could support Visa as an GNOC Network Specialist/Associate we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.
The Work itself:As a member of Global Network Operations Centre (GNOC) team, the Associate/Specialist is the in-shift detection, notification and escalation point for network issues. They have the primary responsibility for managing and responding to Network, Hardware and external client and circuit events which may result in impaired connectivity to our clients and internal business. The position requires an in-depth understanding of how logical and physical connectivity issues can affect transaction quality of Visa Client. You will be able to explore many latest technologies that support the Visa Operations, such as Cloud, SASI Network, many other Payment products, and services.
Essential FunctionsThe Skills You Bring:Understanding of customer topology and potential work-around scenarios to mitigate client impact.
Modify and create work instructions or Recipes to prepare for similar impacting events and allow for a quicker response. Constantly review work instructions for accuracy and solicit improvements through second level support groups.
Ability to communicate effectively throughout the incident management process to ensure that all communications are timely and accurate, as per documented process.
Follow documented support procedures, managing each issue through resolution or turnover in order to maintain established service levels.
Track update and resolve all assigned incidents, changes and problem reports in the incident management system, ensuring that documentation is thorough, accurate and meets a standard of high quality.
Use sound judgment in determining incident priorities and enlisting support of other internal groups to prevent any compromise to Visa business or client service level agreements. Proper escalation to support groups based on criticality and exposure.
In-depth understanding of all Visa proprietary as well as industry standard tools to support monitoring and response for client and Visa brand issues.
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
Basic Qualifications
• Must have a High School diploma or equivalent or relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
• Sound understanding and working knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS and OSPF.
• Good working knowledge on Cisco 65xx/72xx/76xx, Nexus 5k/7k & FEX, Arista switches, Bluecoat proxy, F5 LTM & GTM, Juniper, Silver Peak.
• Good Knowledge of SolarWinds, Netcool, or other fault monitoring toolsets
• Good Knowledge of ServiceNow or other incident and change management tools.
• Broad knowledge and background on TCP/IP, MPLS, WAN, LAN SDWAN and Cloud technologies.
• Good Knowledge of datacenters and wide-area-network routing/switching, tunneling, security operations/Network Design or engineering, MPLS and Ethernet carrier transports
• Ability to interpret firewall logs and look for specific permission or denial of a source IPs to a specific destination in support of troubleshooting.
• Experience on Packet analyser, Network discovery Tools like Thousand Eyes, Netbrain, Wireshark.
• GO On-site Flex working model.
• Basic load balancer knowledge.
• Previous experience in Network Operations.
• Excellent verbal/written communication, organisational skills, ability to prioritise a constantly changing workload. Interpersonal skills and ability to excel as part of a team.
• MS Office suite proficiency.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Preferred: ITIL certification
• Preferred: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA, AWS, Silver Peak.
• Desirable: Any experience of network automation especially toolsets such as Python or Ansible
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.
