Site Reliability Engineer, Platform
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.
Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.
Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.
Summary
Pismo’s Platform squad is responsible for maintaining the life-cycle (bootstrap, maintenance and decommission) the following domains: Container orchestration (through Kubernetes), Cloud Architecture and Networking (Cloud and On-premise).
What you’ll do
The engineer will support the Kubernetes and Service Mesh (Istio) lifecycle within the platform squad by:
- Creating and/or enhancing mechanisms to bootstrap
- Observe (monitoring)
- Maintain (including upgrades)
- Decommission these resources using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native best practices across several clusters.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. #LI-Remote
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- The candidate must possess strong expertise in Kubernetes and Service Mesh (ideally, Istio), with proven experience supporting both day-to-day operations and business-driven initiatives.
- This role requires a hands-on approach to managing cloud-native infrastructure, with all tasks executed through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)—preferably using Terraform—and aligned with GitOps methodologies within a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.
- A solid foundation in English communication is essential, as the role involves regular collaboration with team members located outside Brazil.
Desirable Qualifications
- Basic knowledge in script development
- Basic knowledge in AWS services (S3 Bucket, Dynamo’s Table, IAM, EC2)
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.
