Position: Software Engineer III

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Assists in providing guidance to small groups of two to three engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timeline. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short and long term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams.

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. Position does not require specific years of experience but requires listed skills.

Skills required: Must have experience with:  working on Windows and Linux system administrative tasks such as system builds, server builds, installation, upgrades, migrations and troubleshooting issues on Windows server 2019, RHEL and CentOS; installing, upgrading, and patching Red Hat servers using YUM package management; developing Cron jobs and Shell Scripts to automate administration tasks; automating system configurations steps using Shell and Python; providing Network design solutions to implement services like load balancing, traffic manager, application gateways, and network security groups; Cloud infrastructure deployment via Terraform templates and deployment using Jenkins CI/CD; building highly automated infrastructure using automation frameworks (ARM Templates and Terraform); working with developers to establish branching strategies for GIT version control; implementing CI via Jenkins by pulling up the code using GIT and building Artifacts using Maven; implementing CD plans to deploy applications and infrastructure using Jenkins; implementing SDLC using Jenkins and automating deployments using Ansible; developing Docker files and building Docker containers; configuring and integrating Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes; building and maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes; creating Helm packages to deploy and manage Kubernetes applications; designing and implementing containerization technology (Docker and Kubernetes) onto Azure cloud and automating application container deployment onto Azure Kubernetes Service-cluster (AKS) and AWS Kubernetes Service (EKS); managing Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters used to perform rolling deployments of Java applications; migrating workloads from on-prem datacenter to Azure and Google Cloud platforms; monitoring Azure services by collecting metrics, activity logs and diagnostic logs using Azure Monitor; installing, configuring, and managing Prometheus and Grafana for Resource, Network, and Log Trace Monitoring. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.