Senior Network Engineer – Enterprise Events & Digital Campus (MEETS)

Walmart; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Paid maternity and parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, automate, and support enterprise networking technologies powering Walmart’s largest events, conferences, and collaboration spaces. You will build scalable wired and wireless infrastructure and lead automation initiatives across teams, ensuring high availability and performance for tens of thousands of associates.

The role partners across networking, security, software engineering, collaboration technology, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field is commonly expected.
• Strong background in enterprise networking design and operations.
• Experience with large-scale event networking and security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise networking solutions and resilient network architectures.
• Deploy and optimize enterprise switching, routing, and large-scale wireless environments.
• Lead Wi-Fi 7 implementations and support temporary event networking.
• Develop network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions.
• Build monitoring, telemetry, and observability capabilities.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams to drive automation initiatives.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues and support incident response efforts.
• Improve deployment standards, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Support executive and high-visibility events.
• Participate in architecture reviews and engineering planning.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Cisco Networking

Routing & Switching

Cisco Wireless

Wireless Design

RF Optimization

QoS

DNS

DHCP

VPN

Firewalls

Catalyst Center

Python

APIs

Network Automation

IaC

Wi‑Fi 6E

Wi‑Fi 7

Cloud Networking

Enterprise Collaboration

Event Networking

Tools

Cisco Spaces

Meraki

Cisco RoomOS

ThousandEyes

Microsoft Teams Rooms

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Streaming Telemetry

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Position Summary

What you'll do: The Senior Network Engineer designs, deploys, automates, and supports the enterprise networking technologies powering Walmart's largest events, collaboration environments, and digital workplace experiences. This engineer combines deep technical expertise with operational excellence, delivering highly available wired and wireless infrastructure supporting thousands of concurrent users across temporary and permanent enterprise environments. This role serves as one of the organization's principal technical experts, partnering across networking, security, software engineering, collaboration technology, and operations to build scalable, repeatable networking platforms.

Note: Immigration related sponsorship is not available for this position. About Team:

MEETS is responsible for designing, engineering, deploying, and operating the technology infrastructure that powers Walmart's largest enterprise events, executive experiences, conferences, training sessions, and collaboration spaces. The team delivers highly reliable wired and wireless networking, collaboration technologies, event infrastructure, broadcast connectivity, point-of-sale networking, AV technologies, and temporary enterprise environments supporting tens of thousands of associates annually. Beyond events, the organization partners closely with Room & Collaboration Technology, Enterprise Networking, Software Engineering, Digital Campus, Tech Support, and Enterprise Infrastructure teams to build the next generation of intelligent workplace experiences. Our vision is to transform enterprise events from individually engineered deployments into software-defined, highly automated, telemetry-driven technology platforms capable of supporting predictive operations and exceptional customer experiences.

Network Architecture & Engineering

• Design enterprise networking solutions and resilient network architectures.
• Deploy and optimize enterprise switching, routing, and large-scale wireless environments.
• Lead Wi-Fi 7 implementations and support temporary event networking.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Develop network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions.
• Build monitoring, telemetry, and observability capabilities.
• Partner with Software Engineering teams to drive automation initiatives.

Operations & Reliability

• Troubleshoot complex network issues and support incident response efforts.
• Improve deployment standards, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Support executive and high-visibility events.

Technical Leadership

• Participate in architecture reviews and engineering planning.
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation and best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth and knowledge sharing.

Required Skills & Technologies

• Networking: Cisco Networking, Routing & Switching, Cisco Wireless, Wireless Design, RF Optimization, QoS, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Firewalls
• Cisco Ecosystem: Catalyst Center
• Automation & Development: Python, APIs, Network Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Wireless & Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7
• Enterprise Infrastructure: Cloud Networking, Enterprise Collaboration, Event Networking

Preferred Experience

• Cisco Solutions: Cisco Spaces, Meraki, Cisco RoomOS, ThousandEyes
• Collaboration Platforms: Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Observability & Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Streaming Telemetry
• Automation & DevOps: Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions
• Cloud & Platform Technologies: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes
• Data & Messaging: Kafka

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.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and it's fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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.

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.

Information Technology - CISCO Certification - Certification

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

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.

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, information technology, information systems, electrical engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in large-scale networking environments or related area. Option 2: 5 years' experience in large scale networking environments or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related area and 1 year' experience in large scale networking environments or related area. We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG