(USA) Staff, Systems And Infrastructure Engineer, Information Security

Walmart • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

The Staff, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, Information Security designs, implements, and maintains secure IT infrastructure that supports organizational objectives. The role applies security controls, risk management frameworks, and automation to improve infrastructure security and scalability, using continuous integration and delivery practices, configuration management, and identity and access management. The engineer collaborates across teams to strengthen system observability and resilience and protect enterprise information assets.

The position is part of Walmart’s Identity Platform Team, which delivers identity infrastructure for secure, scalable, and resilient access across Walmart’s technology ecosystem. The team engineers and manages enterprise platforms for directory services, authentication, authorization, privileged access, and integrations across workforce, applications, cloud, and infrastructure. Its work includes platform engineering, architecture, governance, configuration, and lifecycle management, as well as audit readiness, technical governance, resiliency, and platform modernization. DevOps, automation, APIs, and telemetry support reliability, service delivery, and consistent controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related area and 4 years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering or a related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company; or 6 years of such experience without the degree.
• Expertise in security controls and risk management frameworks for protecting IT infrastructure.
• Strong background in cybersecurity and infrastructure security best practices.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Proficiency in configuration management and automation for scalable systems design.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, including Okta implementation.
• Ability to apply security engineering principles to complex systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring system health and security.

Nice To Haves

• Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC.
• Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related area and 2 years of experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
• Knowledge of implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility in products and services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure IT infrastructure to support organizational cybersecurity objectives.
• Develop and enforce security controls aligned with the Risk Management Framework to mitigate risks.
• Automate configuration management and deployment processes to improve system scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate on identity and access management solutions, including Okta integration, to safeguard resources.
• Monitor infrastructure observability to detect and respond to security incidents promptly.
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines with embedded security engineering practices.
• Contribute to systems design to ensure infrastructure security and compliance with industry standards.
• Contribute to identity platform engineering, architecture, governance, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Support audit readiness, technical governance, resiliency, and platform modernization efforts.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.

What This Job Offers

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