Staff Network Engineer

About Us
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.

Job Description

Role Overview

The Staff Network Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for the technical direction, architecture guidance, design governance, implementation oversight, and operational support of enterprise WAN, LAN, wireless, and secure-connectivity solutions within a corporate network environment.

This role provides technical leadership for the organization’s highest-complexity and enterprise-scale network initiatives. The Staff Network Engineer influences architecture, reference patterns, engineering standards, and technology roadmaps; provides end-to-end technical oversight across engineering, security, project, operations, and vendor teams; and serves as a senior escalation point for complex cross-domain issues.

The Staff Network Engineer operates with a high degree of autonomy and uses technical influence, mentoring, and engineering leadership to improve network reliability, security, scalability, operational supportability, and long-term technology outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Network Design & Implementation

- Provide technical direction for enterprise WAN, LAN, wireless, remote-access, and secure-connectivity solutions.
- Lead the design and technical delivery of the organization’s most complex, high-risk, or enterprise-scale network initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and operational acceptance.
- Influence and develop network architecture principles, reference patterns, design standards, and reusable engineering practices in partnership with Architecture, Security, Operations, and other technology teams.
- Produce and govern high-level and low-level network designs, technical decision records, implementation strategies, resiliency requirements, and supportability criteria.
- Lead technical-design reviews and ensure solutions appropriately address reliability, scalability, capacity, security, observability, automation, and lifecycle requirements.
- Assess network performance, capacity, resiliency, and technical debt and provide strategic recommendations supporting current and long-term business requirements.
- Evaluate emerging network technologies and determine their potential applicability, benefits, risks, dependencies, and operational impact.
- Provide technical oversight for design validation, testing, implementation readiness, rollback planning, and operational handoff.

Operations & Advanced Support

- Serve as a senior engineering escalation point for highly complex, cross-domain, recurring, or business-critical network incidents.
- Lead root-cause analysis for significant network events and ensure corrective actions address systemic technical, process, monitoring, or supportability gaps.
- Provide technical direction during major incidents and coordinate engineering analysis across internal teams, vendors, and service providers.
- Establish expectations for network observability, operational readiness, troubleshooting procedures, resiliency testing, and support documentation.
- Analyze incident, problem, performance, and capacity trends to identify systemic risks and prioritize engineering improvements.

Security & Compliance

- Provide senior technical guidance to ensure security and compliance requirements are incorporated into network architectures, standards, and major initiatives.
- Lead technical analysis and remediation planning for significant network vulnerabilities, security events, and control gaps.
- Evaluate proposed designs for security, resiliency, operational risk, and control effectiveness and recommend required improvements.
- Promote secure-by-design practices throughout the network-engineering lifecycle.

Vendor & Stakeholder Collaboration

- Provide senior technical direction to vendors and service providers and evaluate proposed products, designs, implementation approaches, and corrective actions.
- Provide technical leadership across Project Management, Account Management, Security, Network Operations, Enterprise Architecture, application teams, vendors, and service providers.
- Communicate complex technical risks, decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement & Automation

- Define and advance technical practices for Python, network automation, configuration validation, testing, and operational analytics.
- Lead the development and adoption of reusable automation frameworks, engineering templates, validation controls, and standard implementation patterns.
- Develop recommendations and roadmaps addressing reliability, scalability, observability, security, technical debt, and lifecycle modernization.
- Measure whether engineering improvements deliver the intended technical and operational outcomes.

Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship

- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to Network Engineers, Senior Network Engineers, and network-support engineers.
- Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, technical briefings, troubleshooting sessions, and post-incident engineering reviews.
- Create force-multiplier impact by transferring knowledge, improving engineering practices, and enabling other engineers to solve increasingly complex problems.
- Provide technical leadership through influence and expertise without direct people-management responsibility.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- Progressive enterprise network-engineering experience, including demonstrated leadership of high-complexity or enterprise-scale network initiatives.
- Expert‑level knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF).
- Expert knowledge of Cisco routing and switching in large enterprise environments.
- Advanced knowledge of Arista switching.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise WAN, LAN, wireless, MPLS, and TCP/IP networking.
- Advanced experience with Cisco VPN networking.
- Demonstrated experience developing or influencing network architectures, designs, technical standards, or reference patterns.
- Experience serving as a senior technical escalation point for complex network incidents and leading systemic root-cause analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical decisions, risks, and recommendations to senior technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualification

- Significant experience with SD‑WAN technologies, ideally Silver Peak.
- Advanced understanding of SASE solutions.
- Working knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including hybrid connectivity.
- Working knowledge of Python and network automation tools.
- Experience with Citrix NetScaler Access Gateways.
- Experience developing reusable automation frameworks using Python, Ansible, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Knowledge of Unified Communications and MS Teams solutions.
- Cisco certification (e.g., CCNA, CCNP or equivalent experience).
- Experience with network-performance, packet-analysis, configuration-management, modelling, and observability tools.

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.

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.