Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Cloud Storage Architect will work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud & Data Platforms, Application Development, Capacity, Cost and Operations teams to provide highly available, fault tolerant, cost effective and performant cloud and enterprise storage services.
Using various automated tools, you will provide scalable and reliable storage solutions to manage Public and Private clouds within multiple disparate cloud infrastructures. You will develop data insights by utilizing data analytics solutions and drive optimal utilization of storage which is cost effective. While Engineering projects will remain the focus of this role, working with customers to deploy cloud-based services to analyze and improve storage efficiencies based on utilization, performance, and TCO will be critical.
Additionally, the Cloud Storage Architect will own tasks to architect, design solutions by interfacing with Enterprise Architects, product managers, developers to escalate, reproduce, validate or debug solutions. You will also be working with other platform teams to help integrate cloud storage services into the larger ecosystem. You will identify opportunities in the ecosystem that will help us to unlock higher value for cloud storage service offerings, by reducing costs and improving performance. You will be part of a team of highly motivated engineers who work very well together.
Responsibilities
- Design, evangelize, advocate for, and optimize cross-functional Cloud and Enterprise Storage solutions that are high performant and cost effective.
- Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization.
- Initiate & drive significant architectural solutions/decisions of our Public and Private Clouds that will improve efficiency, performance, and reduce Cloud Storage spend.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives across storage services organization, with a focus on improving performance and next-gen tech stack adoption.
- Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on various cloud platforms.
- Partner with architects in Application and other platform teams and ensure alignment of solutions across the stack.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance, availability, and cost metrics across the multi-cloud ecosystem.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and implement proactive measures to maintain high availability and service continuity.
- Leverage data analytics and AI tools to predict usage patterns, optimize resource allocations and enhance infrastructure performance.
- Build, tune, troubleshoot block, file and object storage systems in high availability storage clusters.
- Participate in on-call escalation chain during incidents and proactively troubleshoot issues.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for operational readiness.
- Design and maintain cloud storage best practices.
- Provide troubleshooting expertise for storage performance, availability and other issues.
- Train and educate others within Technology about Cloud technologies.
- Solve business needs by evaluating different storage technology options and vendor products.
- Develop and integrate provisioning and lifecycle tools for storage services components.
- Contribute to an environment that promotes and reinforces the highest standards of integrity and
- ethics.
- Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change, obstacles, or adversity.
- Adapt to competing demands and shifting priorities.
Qualifications
In addition to being technically sound, results driven with a strong operational background and impressive analytical ability, you will need the following to be successful:
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and understanding of various cloud storage abstraction layers to select the right technology for the application storage needs, with a focus on designing solutions that meet the performance requirements at an optimal cost.
- Experience supporting large scale, highly available, production Cloud Storage deployments in public and private cloud environments.
- Experience with any combination of Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, S3, Azure managed disks, Google persistent disks.
- Experience with cloud storage services, resource management, and cloud architecture.
- Experience in troubleshooting issues during an incident and drive down MTTR across the platform
- Experience with enterprise storage solutions (such as Pure, NetApp, Portworx) is desirable.
- Experience with software defined storage systems such as Ceph is an added advantage.
- Experience with software development skills using Python/Go.
- Experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
- Experience in Architecting infra solutions for applications
- Experience with monitoring, reporting tools and data analytics.
- Experience with managing cloud budgets and tools for analysis.
- Good understanding of clustered/distributed systems.
- Experience working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc.) and solid understanding of Service Monitoring, KPI, SLA, Disaster Recovery.
- Deep experience with the Linux ecosystem, automation of common tasks, and configuration of systems monitoring tools.
- Experience with capacity/performance management, monitoring and tuning.
- Experience with Network Storage, Replication and Backups (SAN, iSCSI, NFS, etc.) is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with other organizations across the business while managing customer expectations.
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in CS or similar field of study OR work equivalent
- Work equivalent of 8+ years of experience in cloud & storage, and more than 15 years of work experience in software engineering industry.
Note: Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this position in the Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Reston or Hoboken locations.
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 expert's 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.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
Reston, Virginia US-07759/Hoboken, New Jersey US-10649/Bellevue, Washington US-11075:The annual salary range for this position is $132,000.00-$264,000.00
Sunnyvale, California US-08479:The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09050:The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
Top Skills
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
