(USA) Principal, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, Information Security

About the Role

Join the Walmart/VIZIO Team as a Principal Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer, where you will lead large-scale multi-cloud migration and modernization efforts across AWS, GCP, and Azure. This role focuses on shaping infrastructure, automation, security, and FinOps practices to build durable, scalable, and well-governed cloud platforms.

About the Team

The Walmart/VIZIO Team enables and operates secure, scalable, and cost-aware cloud platforms supporting critical business systems. We collaborate across Engineering, Security, Finance, and Platform teams to modernize infrastructure, migrate workloads, enforce governance, and reduce operational risk. Our goal is to build infrastructure correctly—with consistency, automation, and long-term sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Migration & Architecture Leadership
  • Lead the migration and modernization of applications and databases from AWS to GCP and Azure, ensuring reliability, security, and minimal disruption.
  • Design target-state architectures and migration patterns balancing scalability, resilience, cost, and operational simplicity.
  • Evaluate cloud-native services and guide architectural tradeoffs across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Establish reference architectures, landing zone standards, and platform patterns for organizational use.
• Infrastructure as Code & Platform Automation
  • Architect, build, and maintain reusable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and Terragrunt.
  • Develop Python and Bash automation for infrastructure lifecycle management, migrations, governance, and workflows.
  • Drive consistency through shared modules, versioning strategies, and code review standards.
  • Integrate IaC and automation into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Containers, CI/CD & Modernization
  • Drive containerization and platform adoption using Docker and Kubernetes for scalable, resilient deployments.
  • Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable infrastructure and application delivery.
  • Improve observability, reliability, and operability through automation and standardized tooling.
• Security, Compliance & Governance (SecOps)
  • Build automation and guardrails to remediate security findings and enforce configuration baselines across cloud providers.
  • Partner with Security teams to embed best practices into IaC, pipelines, and platform standards.
  • Support continuous compliance through asset discovery, inventory management, and policy validation tooling.
• FinOps Enablement
  • Incorporate cost awareness and financial accountability into infrastructure design, migrations, and automation.
  • Support tagging standards, cost allocation models, and usage visibility across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Partner with FinOps and Finance teams to align infrastructure decisions with technical and financial best practices.
• Operational Excellence & Technical Leadership
  • Provide hands-on Linux system administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
  • Maintain high-quality documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records.
  • Serve as a principal-level mentor through design reviews, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Champion best practices, consistency, and long-term maintainability across infrastructure efforts.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, plus strong experience with GCP and/or Azure, ideally in migration scenarios.
• Deep expertise in Terraform, including modular, reusable IaC systems; Terragrunt experience strongly preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Solid foundation in Linux system administration, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, compliance requirements, and SecOps workflows.
• Practical experience incorporating FinOps principles into infrastructure and platform design.
• Documentation-first mindset with a commitment to clarity, accuracy, and discoverability.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage complex initiatives.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence without authority.
• Passion for mentorship, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related field and 5 years’ experience in systems and infrastructure engineering at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
• Option 2: 7 years’ experience in systems and infrastructure engineering at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in Security+, GISF, CISSP, CCSP, or GSEC.
• Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related field and 3 years’ experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
• Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and accessibility best practices.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial Benefits: 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid Time Off: PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Additional Benefits: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Education: Live Better U program covers tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, ELL, and short-form certificates (eligibility requirements apply).

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $121,000 - $242,000. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for eligible positions.

Primary Location: 55 Madison St, Denver, CO 80206-5419, United States of America