Position Summary...Join our team as a Director Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of software systems.This role requires strong leadership and technical expertise, with a focus on balancing innovation and operational stability to power the world’s largest retail business.You are right for the job if you are comfortable with System design, Architecture, deep technical Linux, networking topics, and distributed architectures. You will work cross-functionally amongst a variety of teams and be a core contributor in every significant engineering service or solution that we deliver to our stakeholders. You will excel if you have enthusiasm for digging deep, and a flare for sharp technical communication, prioritization, and organization. You along with your team will work directly with our Software Engineering teams to ensure the availability, performance and scalability of our software systems.What you'll do...
About The Team
Site Reliability and Engineering group focuses on producing mission-critical infrastructure, tools, and processes that will ensure highest levels of availability and reliability of all our websites. SRE’s drives standardization and service focused instrumentation, provides subject matter expertise, resolves break/fix scenarios, engaging broader teams as necessary; and partners/leads to achieve continuous improvement. In addition, SRE’s contributes to command-and-control related activities focused on restoration of complex outages, and rapid restoration.
What You’ll Do
- Direct and manage a team of SRE engineers, fostering a culture of honesty, openness, and inclusivity.
- Define and execute a comprehensive reliability and observability strategy.
- Lead the technology strategy for infrastructure and tooling
- Programming/Tooling and Automation experience in one or more of the following languages: Golang, Java, Python, Typescript, Node and Shell .
- Good understanding of Kafka internals , SQL/noSQL databases like Cassandra , Elasticsearch and Postgress and In-Memory Caching frameworks like Memcached .
- Collaborate with various engineering teams and product leadership to align team goals with business priorities.
Work with software development teams to guide the creation of resilient software systems. Lead incident response and root cause analysis for complex production issues. Establish and oversee effective high-severity incident response processes. Oversee disaster recovery programs for on-premise and cloud-based solutionsDesign, write and build tools to improve the reliability, latency, availability and scalability of Walmart e-commerce/Retail and Enterprise products. - Engender reliability and availability starting with metrics and measurements.
- Enable scaling by providing tools, developing training and/or augmenting processes.
- Build tools/automate to prevent re-occurrence of problem to mission critical products/services.
- Participate in capacity planning, demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor's degree or master’s Degree with 15+ years of experience in Computer Science or related field.
- Proficiency in any of the programming languages like Java, Golang, etc
- 8+ years of experience in building and leading strong teams managing large-scale systems.
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps.
- 10+ years of experience deploying and supporting highly distributed, multi-tiered systems at scale.
- 4+ years of experience in Disaster Recovery and/or Business Continuity.
- Methodical and systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a solid awareness of ownership, initiative, and drive.
- Experience with IaaS and PaaS providers such as AWS, AZURE OpenStack, GCP
- Experience with containerisation and container platforms. (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Docker EE, OpenShift, Mesosphere). Experience with enterprise monitoring solutions like AppDynamics, New Relic, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Nagios, Sensu and Splunk
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.
Belonging
We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.3 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location...
G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-2351756
