Senior Manager, Data Platform & DevOps

Walmart

Denver (CO)

On-site

USD 121,000 - 242,000

Full time

8 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits
401(k) matching
Stock purchase plan
PTO
Live Better U education benefits

Job summary

Walmart in Denver seeks a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Data Platform Operations team, driving operational excellence across the Data Lake and Data Platform ecosystem with a strong DevOps, security, cloud-cost optimization, deployment reliability, monitoring, automation, and AI-enabled optimization.

The ideal candidate partners closely with engineering, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure a secure, scalable, and highly reliable data platform, while mentoring

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS or related field.
  • 5+ years of software engineering or related area.
  • 2 years of supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Data Platform Operations team to drive operational strategy for the Data Lake and related services.
  • Enhance data security and governance by improving access provisioning and compliance standards.
  • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and automation to streamline operations.
  • Improve cloud cost efficiency through tuning across storage, compute, and networking.
  • Collaborate with security teams to strengthen IAM, RBAC, and compliance.
  • Apply SRE practices for standardized deployments and resilience.
  • Enhance monitoring and observability for reliability.
  • Oversee maintenance, scaling, and automation of operational workflows.
  • Integrate AI-driven optimization for performance improvement.
  • Mentor engineers and guide architectural decisions with rigorous testing and code reviews.

Skills

Leadership
Software engineering
DevOps
DataOps/Data platform
SRE
Terraform
Cloud cost optimization
IAM/RBAC
Mentoring engineers
Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / engineering

Tools

Databricks
Snowflake
Apache Spark
Airflow
Kafka
Delta Lake
Iceberg
GCP
Azure

Job description

Walmart in Denver seeks a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the Data Platform Operations team, driving operational excellence across the Data Lake and Data Platform ecosystem with a strong DevOps, security, cloud-cost optimization, deployment reliability, monitoring, automation, and AI-enabled optimization.

The ideal candidate partners closely with engineering, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure a secure, scalable, and highly reliable data platform, while mentoring

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