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Group Director, Software Engineering, Technology Operations - Walmart
Systems Engineer
Lead the operational strategy and reliability of Walmart’s global commerce and fulfillment platforms, driving scalability, availability, and performance across millions of customer and seller interactions using cloud, container, and DevOps technologies.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the operational strategy for Global Marketplace, Walmart Commerce Platforms, Last Mile Delivery, and GIF, ensuring 99.99% availability and rapid incident response.
- Lead cross‑functional teams in designing, deploying, and optimizing microservices, containerized workloads, and distributed systems on AWS.
- Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automated testing to accelerate feature delivery while maintaining high quality.
- Drive performance engineering initiatives, including capacity planning, load testing, and cost optimization across the platform stack.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and data teams to embed best practices into the platform lifecycle.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering leadership in large‑scale, cloud‑native environments.
- Deep expertise in Python, AWS services, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
- Proven track record of building and scaling high‑availability systems for millions of daily transactions.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and performance monitoring.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
pythonawskubernetescicd