Software Engineer (DevOps)

Redolent • Bentonville, AR

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Global Cloud Platform (Strati): Walmart's Global Cloud Platform – codenamed Strati - team helps thousands of developers save time and code better so that millions of Walmart associates can support hundreds of millions of customers to save money and live better. Strati delivers cloud-native capabilities for Walmart globally. We automate workloads in mega cloud environments, as well as micro cloud environments. We enable innovation and provide the platform that our business partners need. We deliver best-in-class vendor agnostic public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Developers are rapidly making the transition to our ubiquitous application foundation along with its managed services offerings to create business impacting solutions at scale. We sustain millions of transactions per second, process petabytes of data, and enable tens of thousands of production deployments per day. We simplify the complexities of scale and unify the software development for all aspects of business, digital and physical, providing and fostering the cloud-native computing culture across Walmart.

Your Opportunity As a Strati – Managed Log Search Platform (MLS-P) team member, you’ll have the opportunity to conceptualize, design, develop/build and manage one of the largest managed log search platforms for the whole of Walmart Omni channel (ecommerce and store) applications. This highly scalable distributed system is built using enterprise products and homegrown subsystems allowing developers to interactively search, triage and diagnose their applications. Your opportunity will be, ultimately, to contribute in all aspects of Managed Log Search platform deliverables which is DevOps.

Requirements

• Experienced technologist with 7+ years of experience with expertise in the following:
• Centralized Logging platform solutions: Splunk (Preferred) ELK, etc.
• Infrastructure automation: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Chef
• Configuring fluentbit (or similar Data Collectors)
• Containers: Kubernetes/Docker
• Telemetry solutions: Instrumentation and monitoring
• Ability to develop modules, plugins or API end points.
• Strong at identifying problems, solving complex problems with simple solutions.
• Result driven, self-motivated, customer centric, and a strong learning mindset, with a good understanding of related technologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Work on a Highly scalable and available centralized logging platform (MLS-P) comprising Splunk and other subsystems.
• Be a subject matter expert with DevOps mindset to develop and operate this service offering
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology (POT) evaluations
• Work extensively on automation of distributed clusters, data pipelines, application onboarding, etc. following Infrastructure as code (IaC) principles.
• Work with internal stakeholders across Walmart, following scrum practice
• Contribute to deliverables as a SME in platform DevOps and Splunk
• Develop, integrate and automate platform modules/workflows
• Triage and work on highly complex issues with broad technical or strategic implications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior