Senior Network Engineer

Company Description

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.

The Opportunity:

Global Network Engineering is responsible for the strategy, architecture, design, support, and reliability of Visa Inc.'s networks. Network Engineering also shares responsibility with information security for network access and security compliance of all networks. In this role, you will be responsible for the data center design, engineering, and support of IP networks for Visa’s Debit Processing Services (DPS) and Latin America and Caribbean commercial network infrastructure, the network that connects Visa to our commercial clients.

The Work itself:

• Plan, design, implement and support network systems of moderate complexity in the commercial network environment.
• Support WAN connections and determine capacity requirements for new business or requirements.
• Provide network design documentation to project teams, peers, and network support organizations.
• Provision new client processing by completing the necessary network updates and providing technical assistance to clients in support of network changes.
• Perform third-level support within Visa to resolve network issues and provide guidance to other Visa teams involved in network troubleshooting.
• Work with the Cybersecurity to ensure Visa security standards are met and provide technical assistance for investigation and analysis of security events.
• Provide recommendations to management team to increase effectiveness of client connectivity.
• Seek opportunities to improve network management through automation and AI.

Essential Functions:

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of Visa’s data center LAN infrastructure using various platforms such as Cisco, Arista.
• Gather network requirements for key business initiatives, produce high-level and low-level design documentation for proposed solutions, provide cost estimates and timelines for implementation
• Implement network solutions in a fast‑paced environment in a timely fashion while ensuring business critical systems are not impacted during network maintenance windows
• Work closely with the Information Security Office to ensure solutions deployed meet Visa Technical Security Requirements and comply with Visa Key Control policies
• Work closely with the network QA team to ensure all new network designs and changes are tested and certified in non‑production environments prior to production deployment
• Provide 3rd level technical support to Visa clients and to technical teams within Visa to resolve network issues and to support the implementation of new network solutions
• Provide highest level of technical consultancy to ensure problem resolution is achieved in the shortest possible time frame

This is a hybrid position.

Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least February 24th, 2026.

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• 3-5 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 1 years of experience with a PhD.
• Network design and engineering experience on customer facing networks.
• Automation / scripting experience (Ansible, Python, Perl, etc.)
• IP networking switching and routing…