Lead Network Engineer, Traffic Management
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 3, 2026. Visa scores A on the Alion truth index.
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
Overview:
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Lead Network Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing traffic management technologies that span Visa’s private data center and public cloud environments with an emphasis on CDN, DNS, load balancing and proxy solutions.
We are looking for a hands-on individual with extensive knowledge in traffic management, automation, and infrastructure as code technology including knowledge of applicable cloud native solutions, methodologies, standards, products, and frameworks. The ideal candidate would assist in the definition of the architecture, capturing functional requirements, preparing estimates, and developing technical solutions for Visa’s traffic management technologies.
This role offers the opportunity to combine architecture definition with hands-on development work as part of providing guidance to project teams on design and deployment related activities.
The successful candidate will work with Operations and Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and Product Development teams to define solutions for application delivery that will enable the use of hybrid cloud infrastructure to meet the challenges of technology, regulatory, security, and competitive conditions. The Lead Network Engineer is a technologist with demonstrated experience and interest in network and application traffic management, public cloud, CDN, cloud native design and application transformation/modernization. The candidate should have a positive attitude and excellent communication skills to effectively share your knowledge.
Key Responsibilities:
The Lead Network Cloud Engineer provides senior technical leadership in several network engineering areas of expertise and is responsible for developing and executing new initiatives to drive growth, reduce cost, increase reliability and increase global synergy for Visa’s networks. They will collaborate with other functional and technology leaders to define and execute business priorities.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Senior technology leadership in network engineering, network automation and public cloud environments.
- Contribute to the traffic management strategy for Visa’s Private/Hybrid/Public Cloud adoption including long-term network architecture scenarios in collaboration with stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Systems, and Cyber Security Architects to assist in driving our strategy and standards.
- Architect, design, and deliver innovative solutions to enable multi-CDN implementation.
- Develop standard automation templates for deployment of traffic management infrastructure and platform components.
- Use cloud-native approaches for solutions based on business goals, objectives, and requirements, while understanding integration with legacy solutions.
- Design security into all projects and processes for design, implementation, and operational stages.
- Design solutions that are secure, scalable, repeatable, and highly available while efficient.
- Provide knowledge transfer to engineering and operations teams on architecture, design, and delivery of public cloud solutions.
- Drive software development for Visa’s Infrastructure as Code (IAC) efforts across Private/Hybrid/Multi Cloud environments and CDNs.
- Influence enterprise technology selection and define High Level Design documentation for key technology initiatives.
- Collaborate with network architecture, cyber security, and operations teams. Making recommendations on next-generation capabilities to support new business opportunities.
- Drive coordination, consensus, and execution to mitigate cyber risk issues and emerging threats in such a dynamic environment.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD Technical Foundation
- Demonstrated experience with hand-on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and deployment in Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) CDN, load balancing and proxy deployments. Engineering or development experience in automation frameworks and solutions in enterprise networks.
- 4+ years’ experience in traffic management technologies, particularly in the context of public cloud, CDN, load balancing and proxy. Demonstrated hands on experience in developing Terraform frameworks for automated deployments.
- Demonstrated experience with open-source infrastructure as code software and automation software development tools including Terraform, Terragrunt, env0, Ansible, Python, Chef, Puppet or Salt.
- A proven background and recent experience in modern traffic management architecture practice including experience in design of global and local traffic management solutions.
- Experience with networking tooling applications and networking ancillary services.
- Experience with networking best practices, in particular networking security best practices, firewalling/VPN experience.
- Expert knowledge of CDN infrastructure and services.
- Excellent understanding of public cloud network, compute, storage, management and governance services.
- Demonstrated experience with open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software and automation software development tools (e.g., Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, ARM/Bicep).
- 5+ years of experience with CDN (Akamai and/or Cloudflare) and load balancing (F5 and/or NGINX).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise level technologies implementing cloud native and hybrid solutions.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with container technologies in a production environment (e.g. Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes) and related ecosystem products
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding teamwork and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.
Information for US Applicants
For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $173,100.00 to $ 276,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.