The position will be responsible for managing and maintaining the physical infrastructure of Walmart's data centers, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and safety of the company's enterprise critical environment.
The Senior Data Center Facilities Engineer will work in a modern, state-of-the-art data center environment, with access to cutting-edge technologies and tools. The work schedule may include night shifts, weekends, and on-call rotations as needed.
About Team:
Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.
What you'll do:
Key Responsibilities:
- Data Center Operations: Manage and maintain the day-to-day operations of a 24x7 data center, including power, cooling, and Building Management Systems (BMS) .
- Maintenance and Repair: Lead routine to complex maintenance and repairs on data center equipment and systems, including HVAC, electrical, fire, and BMS systems.
- Operations: Facilitate the coordination of major preventive maintenance and project activities by establishing and nurturing connections with essential stakeholders across multiple enterprise data centers
- Strategic Planning: Forecast and drive strategic long-range goals and projects. Partner with and advise the data center manager to achieve these goals.
- Capacity Planning: Collaborate with data center architects and engineers to plan for capacity upgrades and expansions, ensuring that the data center infrastructure can support current and future business needs.
- Energy Efficiency: Develop and implement energy efficiency initiatives to reduce data center energy consumption and carbon footprint.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with Walmart's security policies and regulatory standards, such as OSHA, NFPA, and EPA. Vendor Management: Manage relationships with data center vendors, including contract negotiation, vendor performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
- Budgeting: Develop and manage the data center facilities budget, including capital expenditures and operational expenses.
- Project Management: Lead data center projects, including planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders.
- Team Leadership: Build strong collaborative partnerships with peers and drive consistency across multiple enterprise data centers, provide guidance and mentorship to the data center facilities engineer.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical/mechanical engineering, or related field and/or 8 years of experience in data center facilities engineering and operations, including 3 years in a leadership or senior role.
- In-depth knowledge of data center facilities technologies, including power, cooling, and building management systems
- Strong understanding of data center design, implementation, and operations.
- Utilization and knowledge of enterprise level applications (Maximo, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and ServiceNow).
- Expert knowledge of the creation and execution of Method of Procedures, Standard Operating Procedures, and Emergency Operating Procedures.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Foster our culture & have familiarity with Walmart's code of conduct and compliance policies.
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.
