Position: Software Engineer III
Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72712
Duties: Creates and delivers presentations on application solutions to diverse audiences (for example, suppliers, technical staff) by gathering required information; developing materials; and identifying recommendations. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise in Information Systems Division (ISD)-Applications Development area and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet Customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales. Develops Associate capabilities by mentoring and teaching team members (for example, coding languages, scripts, documentation requirements, programming standards, DBMS technologies); assigning tasks; and reviewing and approving recommended solutions. Manages product installation upgrades (for example, Information Systems Division (ISD) application solutions, third-party products) by evaluating new application components; determining release schedules; and establishing installation timelines. Provides complex application solutions by identifying business requirements; researching potential solutions; making recommendations to meet end-user business objectives; conducting analysis and design; writing data analysis documents; creating technical design documentation; and writing detailed checklists for change control implementations. Supports Information Systems Division (ISD) applications by coordinating responses to user questions and problems; overseeing research of service level functions (for example, performance, availability, reliability); driving problem identification to root cause; coordinating resolutions, changes, and improvements; and leading and engaging war and focus room meetings. Leads efforts to increase Information Systems Division (ISD) team effectiveness by identifying and implementing best practices; utilizing work review processes (for example, code, design, technical); and improving Customer communications. Participates in team projects by following Information Systems Development Life Cycle (ISDLC) processes; leading projects; creating and approving project plans; directing development of program specifications and programs; gathering requested information; writing, testing, and debugging complex programs and scripts; implementing test scripts and procedures; testing and installing third-party software; writing instruction manuals; compiling documentation reports; and documenting application changes.
Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field plus 5 years of software engineering experience or related experience
Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing and developing high performance oriented, time sensitive applications using Object oriented design and development; Developing Mission critical e-Commerce micro services using advanced container Orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Java and Python; Analyzing and finding out Root Cause Analysis of functional, performance and scalability issues; Driving through and fixing high priority issues within agreed time limits; Fixing Kafka lag issues quickly with stakeholder approvals; Implementing data monitoring and alerting needs using different monitoring frameworks like Prometheus, Grafan; Implementing Critical, High and Medium slack/email alerts to prevent customer and revenue business impact; Expanding and customizing Grafana dashboards, plugins and panels (Pie Chart, Gantt and World map Panel) to support application monitoring needs; Developing Grafana plugins using JavaScript and JSON to support eCommerce application needs; Building Automation and Maintenance scripts using Python and Shell script technologies to correct data created by application and user errors; Reducing manual work by automating the alerts and reports to different slack channels; Integrating and utilizing Elasticsearch as data analytics engine to improve Query speed, performance, and real time analytics; Integrating Grafana, Kibana with Elasticsearch to provide different health metrics; Updating and managing production Kubernetes cluster deployments and microservices to support high availability, scalability and throughput, helping to reduce downtime of the application in case of high traffic scenario; Integrating and utilizing DevOps Tools like Elasticsearch, JIRA, GitHub, SONAR and Jenkins to provide continuous integration and continuous development (CICD) features; Working with different SQL and NOSQL databases like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Solar to retrieve data and validate product specifications; Writing bulk data pull and push scripts on databases to support business requirements; Advanced level REST/JSON Webservices development with authentication, authorization, encryption and SSL features to provide end-to-end security of Higher level APIs. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.