(USA) Staff, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Join Walmart’s technology team as a Staff, Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, where you will design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure solutions that support critical business operations. This role requires expertise in systems engineering, cloud migration, and infrastructure automation to enhance security and efficiency. You will collaborate across teams to develop robust identity and access management frameworks and optimize configuration management processes. Your contributions will ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure that aligns with Walmart’s strategic objectives and supports ongoing innovation.

About the team

The Enterprise Directory Services Core team oversees Walmart’s multiple Active Directory forests, ensuring secure and efficient LDAP services. This team maintains a stable, well-protected Active Directory environment, demonstrating operational excellence. It provides consulting support to application teams by sharing best practices and resolving application-related issues. Focused on reliability, security, modernization, and collaboration, the team plays a crucial role in sustaining the infrastructure that supports Walmart’s business operations.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, security, and management of Active Directory and support hybrid identity systems. Contribute to identity modernization, architecture standards, automation, and resilient directory services across large-scale infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on support for enterprise Active Directory services across multi-domain, multi-forest, and hybrid identity environments.
• Contribute to modernization of domain controller infrastructure through service optimization initiatives.
• Support enterprise identity modernization by helping integrate Active Directory with cloud-based identity platforms and reduce legacy authentication dependencies.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks, monitoring platforms, and alerting solutions that improve operational efficiency.
• Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and escalation support for engineers.

Requirements

• Solid experience in IT infrastructure, Enterprise IAM, Active Directory, cloud-based identity, and access management adoption.
• Proven expertise in systems engineering, infrastructure maintenance, and configuration management.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, JavaScript, and Python to automate operational tasks.
• Ability to analyze infrastructure performance metrics and develop capacity plans aligned with business requirements.
• Familiarity with version control, release verification, and integration management using middleware and APIs.
• Understanding of architectural principles and design patterns for scalable, secure systems.
• Hands-on experience managing Active Directory and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services for enterprise environments.
• Software engineering skills to support integration and development of infrastructure components.

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, information technology, or related area and 4 years’ experience in technology infrastructure engineering across areas such as compute, storage, network, mobility, or virtualization-related technologies.
• Option 2: 6 years’ experience in technology infrastructure engineering across areas such as compute, storage, network, mobility, or virtualization-related technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, information technology, or related area and 2 years of relevant experience in configuration management, developing automation for provisioning and orchestration, experience developing and managing service-level objectives (SLOs)/service level indicators (SLIs) for infrastructure service availability and performance.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices, including implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.

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. The amount depends on job classification and length of employment and meets or exceeds paid sick leave laws where applicable.
• Other benefits: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Education benefits: Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates. 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.

Pay

• Bentonville, Arkansas: The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00.
• Herndon, Virginia: The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00.
• Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
• Additional compensation for certain positions may also include stock.

Primary location: 805 Se Moberly Ln., Bentonville, AR 72712, United States of America.