Associate Network Analyst - GO

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

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 Functions

The 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 an on-site position, which requires the employee to follow the GO guidelines. Currently, employees are required to work 11 of 14 shifts on-site and 3 days working from home. This can change according to Business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
-2 or more years of work experience
-Preferred: ITIL certification
-Preferred: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA, AWS, Silver Peak.
Desirable
-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.
-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.