Staff Systems Engineer - Cloud & Iac

Visa Visa · Fintech · Cambridge, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Staff Systems Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering at Visa. Responsibilities include developing IaC, building self-service platforms, implementing security and compliance measures, optimizing cloud costs, and incident management. Requires deep experience with AWS/Azure, containerization, automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), and Linux, preferably in a highly audited environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Delivering End-to-End technical project consulting, engineering, deployment and support
  2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain cloud solutions using automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  3. Platform Engineering: Build self-service platforms and standardized patterns that allow product teams to deliver services efficiently.
  4. Security & Compliance: Implement and enforce robust security measures, including IAM roles, network security, and compliance monitoring.
  5. FinOps & Cost Optimization: Analyze usage and costs to optimize resource allocation, including rightsizing and auto-scaling.

Skills

Required

  • AWS & Azure - Cloud native services
  • Containerisation, EKS and other orchestration technologies.
  • Automation tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Foreman, Chef, Salt, Puppet, Jenkins, etc)
  • Build system, source code management; e.g. GitLab / GitHub / TeamCity etc
  • Automated OS & Application patching technologies
  • Linux operating systems, including its architecture, installation, hardening, troubleshooting, patching and operational maintenance.
  • Exposure working in a highly audited, compliance-led environment

Nice to have

  • Experience within a compliance-driven, audited environment
  • IP networking, DNS, and firewalling
  • Python, shell scripts and command-line tools
  • Process-driven ITSM tooling (Jira, ServiceNow or similar)
  • Clear & strong verbal & written communication skills and natural willingness to collaborate across teams and organisations.
  • Management & optimisation of AD, Hyper-V, RDS, Azure, MS365, Teams, Sharepoint, WSO, AWS, MFA, SSO.
  • Authoring technical, peer & user-facing documentation.
  • Experience of DevOps / CICD environments

What the JD emphasized

  • highly audited, compliance-led environment
  • compliance-driven, audited environment