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About Visa
Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
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Listed pay typically runs
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Lead Network Engineer, Traffic Management joins the Technology Organization to design and implement traffic management technologies across private data center and public cloud environments. This role involves defining architecture, capturing functional requirements, and developing technical solutions for CDN, DNS, load balancing, and proxy systems. The engineer will provide senior leadership in network automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) while collaborating with cybersecurity and product teams to ensure secure, scalable application delivery across hybrid cloud infrastructures. Key technologies include Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Python, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Akamai, Cloudflare, F5, NGINX, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes. The role addresses the complex challenge of managing global traffic for high-volume payment processing networks while navigating regulatory requirements and security threats. The position requires expertise in cloud-native designs to modernize legacy systems and ensure reliable connectivity across diverse network environments.
Design and implement traffic management technologies including CDN, DNS, load balancing, and proxy solutions across private and public cloud environments.
Develop standard automation templates for the deployment of traffic management infrastructure and platform components.
Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using tools like Terraform to automate deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Architect and deliver innovative solutions to enable multi-CDN implementations while ensuring high availability and scalability.
Define technical requirements, provide cost estimates, and develop high-level design documentation for key infrastructure projects.
Integrate security best practices into all stages of network design, implementation, and operation to mitigate cyber risks.
Provide technical leadership and knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams regarding public cloud solutions.
What we're looking for
10+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 7 years with an advanced degree, or 4 years with a PhD, or 13+ years of experience.
Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and deployment in Hybrid Cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP (preferred).
Experience in automation frameworks and solutions for enterprise networks (preferred).
4+ years of experience in traffic management technologies, specifically regarding public cloud, CDN, load balancing, and proxy solutions (preferred).
Demonstrated hands-on experience developing Terraform frameworks and using tools like Terragrunt, Ansible, Python, Chef, Puppet, or Salt (preferred).
Expert knowledge of CDN infrastructure, load balancing, and public cloud network, compute, storage, and governance services (preferred).
5+ years of experience with Akamai/Cloudflare and F5/NGINX technologies (preferred).
3+ years of hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, OpenShift, or Kubernetes in a production environment (preferred).