(IND) SENIOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEER- Release Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

This position is for Walmart Returns Platform Engineering team. As a DevOps Engineer in geographically-distributed team,

you will be responsible for ensuring that Walmart Search Stack is Highly Available and Scalable and Reliability.

We are seeking an Engineer with a passion to drive automation at all stages of software development, release, operations and

maintenance and be able to utilize industry research to improve Walmart's technology environment by analysing industry best practices,

bench marking industry against internal processes and solutions and researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with

internal needs. The candidate should be able to demonstrate Core Technical Skills mentioned in the documentations

Design, develop and maintain next gen DevOps processes comprising several stages including plan, code, build, test, release,

deploy, operate and monitor

• Design, build and operate tools to enhance developer productivity.

• Devise strategies to test use cases and various scenarios to help build a robust platform.

• Leads and participates in medium to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements,

translating them into technical solutions.

• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product

management, Web Operations, project management, business and user experience teams, obtaining cross-function approvals,

driving proof-of-concept, and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.

• Troubleshoots business and production issues by reviewing and analysing information (for example, issue, impact, criticality,

possible root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues, formulating an action plan, directing actions

as designated in the plan, interpreting the results to determine further action, performs root cause analysis to prevent future

occurrence of issues; and completing online documentation.

• Work closely with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer user experience,

scale/performance and operability in mind

• You will be actively involved in the continuous improvement of our platform and tooling, by providing input into the direction

of roadmap and contributing to the development of our tooling

• Function as a technical generalist responsible for the overall health and performance of the application landscape

• Closely work with Dev & QA teams in adopting best practices in all aspects of design, development and testing.

• Optimize the application to leverage all the aspects of cloud (elasticity, logging, load balancing, blue-green deployment, etc.)

• Establish and monitor continuous deployment, including development and management of the pipeline

• Identifies opportunities for change and develops plans for capitalizing on these opportunities.

• Participate in 24x7 on call for mission critical services on a rotation basis.

• Design and implement platforms for monitoring, log processing, metrics collection and data visualization.
 

Core Technical Skills

Operating Systems(Should have command over operating system and demonstratable experience in working on remote servers)-
 

• Required : Red Hat Linux / CentOS Linux
• Good To Have: Other flavours such as CoreOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc.

Programming Languages (Should be fluent in one or more of the specified languages and be able to write Web APIs running in a docker container)

• Required: Python / Ruby / JavaScript

• Good To Have: Java, Rust, Go

DevOps Skills (Should be able to create and deploy docker containers in Kubernetes, demonstrate working experience with terraform, ansible, git and public cloud)

• Required:: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Git

Other Skills

• Required: (Demonstratable experience with Java based application development– build & release, and performance

• Good To Have: Maven, Jenkins, Monitoring & Alerting (preferably Prometheus), Performance Engineering

  Grafana, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Splunk, ELK, MySQL, MongoDB, Messaging Systems engineering.)

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

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