Senior Manager, Software Engineering Storage

About the position

If you’re thinking ‘scale’, think bigger and don’t stop there. At Walmart Bengaluru, we don’t just innovate, we enable transformations across stores and different channels for the Walmart experience. Take a regular day at Walmart and match that with 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. That’s Walmart for you. With fiscal year 2024 revenue of $648 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.1 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a simple and seamless experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics are enabling us to better serve our customers and create a digital relationship with them. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We’re changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores, to mobile, social and even online; we’re not just ready for the future of shopping, we’re creating it.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multi-cloud environments, ensure seamless integration, management, and performance of resources across Azure, GCP, and OpenStack platforms.
• Establish cloud strategies that support scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness while ensuring that compute, storage, and network architectures align with business objectives.
• Develop and implement cloud best practices for multi-cloud operations and foster a culture of innovation and optimization across all cloud platforms.
• Manage diverse compute solutions across Azure, GCP, and OpenStack.
• Optimize workload distribution between platforms based on performance, availability, and cost criteria.
• Ensure proper scaling of compute resources, auto-scaling policies, and disaster recovery solutions in each cloud environment.
• Oversee the migration of workloads between cloud environments as needed.
• Oversee cloud storage solutions including Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and Ceph.
• Develop and implement multi-cloud storage policies that focus on data redundancy, tiering, and lifecycle management.
• Optimize data replication and ensure cross-cloud data portability for backup, disaster recovery, and availability needs.
• Implement security measures such as encryption, access control, and auditing to ensure compliance with Walmart security standards across clouds.
• Manage hybrid network environments that connect Azure Virtual Networks, GCP Virtual Private Cloud, and OpenStack networking.
• Ensure reliable and secure network connectivity between on-premises data centers, public clouds, and private clouds.
• Optimize traffic flow, implement load balancing, and manage network routing to ensure network performance.
• Continuously evaluate and optimize the cost of cloud services by leveraging multi-cloud strategies.
• Use cloud-native cost management tools to track cloud expenditures and ensure alignment with budgets.
• Design and implement cloud governance policies that promote resource tagging, usage monitoring, and automated de-provisioning of unused resources.
• Implement multi-cloud security protocols ensuring that data is secure at rest and in transit.
• Ensure compliance with regulations by enforcing security policies across cloud environments.
• Lead a team of cloud engineers and architects working across multi-cloud infrastructures.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and ensure team members are proficient in managing cloud environments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cloud service providers to ensure service levels and technical requirements are met.
• Promote infrastructure as code across cloud platforms by using automation tools.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance, availability, and cost metrics across the multi-cloud ecosystem.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and application development teams to understand infrastructure requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 17+ years of extensive work experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on cloud.
• Proven experience managing cloud infrastructure teams and overseeing large-scale cloud migration, optimization, and management projects.
• Leadership experience with a proven track record of leading large teams in a cloud environment.
• Experience with Cloud Storage services and in-depth knowledge of Storage services.
• Strong understanding of cloud storage, data management, storage tiering, high availability, and disaster recovery practices.
• Ability to analyze customer needs and performance expectations, troubleshoot issues, and recommend solutions.
• Experience with managing cloud budgets and implementing cost-effective storage solutions.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, data encryption, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Master’s degree in computer science or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering.
• Experience with building, supporting large scale infrastructure which is highly available, scalable and resilient.
• Expertise in cloud automation, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies, preferably Terraform.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker, LXC, Kubernetes.
• Experience in programming, scripting, development, Automation Python or Shell Scripting.
• Linux knowledge including Linux Administration and System Troubleshooting.
• Networking concepts and administration including TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, Load balancing.
• Experience with Config Management tools like Ansible.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Company discounts and Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.