Staff Site Reliability Engineer- Python/Power BI/Disaster recovery

The Work itself

Analytics and automation

Build, migrate, and own BI dashboards in Power BI (migrating from Tableau): RTO/RPO compliance heatmaps, system readiness scorecards, DR test status, assessment status, findings exceptions.

Create self-service Power BI reports to reduce ad hoc reporting and enable role-based access.

Automate audit evidence packs for internal and external auditors.

Program leadership and governance

Partner with business and technology teams to identify critical, time sensitive functions define and periodically review recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives.

Develop, implement, and continuously improve Visa s disaster recovery (DR) program aligned to security and resiliency standards.

Lead governance and cross team coordination for the Offline Backup Recovery program measure compliance and report KPIs.

Testing and readiness

Plan, execute, and lead DR exercises track findings and remediation maintain plans and runbooks.

Regularly validate and update DR plans through rigorous testing, lessons learned, and maintenance cycles.

Technical standards and engineering

Establish reference architectures and standards for recovery of applications and infrastructure across core platforms and cloud services.

Investigate and advise on network dependencies for DR (routing, VPNs, firewalls, DNS).

Define and validate data protection patterns (backups, replication, encryption, immutability, offline backups) across storage platforms.

Guide database resilience for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB: backup/restore, replication, and failover test and document runbooks.

Integrate with middleware and messaging platforms (Java services, Apache Kafka/Tomcat, Hazelcast) to ensure end to end recovery.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

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.

Preferred Qualifications Hands on experience building enterprise dashboards and analytics in Power BI and Tableau, including data modeling (Power BI semantic models), DAX/Power Query, Tableau calculations/LOD, governance, and performance optimization. Experience migrating dashboards and data pipelines from Tableau to Power BI. Experience in Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning partnering with IT on DR/BC plan development and maintenance. Experience with critical business processes, products, and services. Technical Architect applying resiliency architectures and design patterns. Strong knowledge of application, system, and infrastructure architectures backup/restore strategies and methods to maximize data availability and reduce interruption or data loss. Solid understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM) and its partnership with ITDR at both business and technical levels. Experience monitoring DR programs for audit and regulatory compliance ability to author and implement DR/BC standards, procedures, and runbooks. Excellent verbal and written communication proven ability to build cross functional partnerships and drive joint initiatives. Strong analytical skills to identify process improvements, isolate key issues, evaluate alternatives, and make clear recommendations. Strong analytical skills to identify process improvements, isolate key issues, evaluate alternatives, and make clear recommendations.