Cloud Storage Architect will work closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud & Data Platforms, Application Development, Capacity, Cost and Operations teams to provide highly available, fault tolerant, cost effective and performant cloud and enterprise storage services.
Using various automated tools, you will provide scalable and reliable storage solutions to manage Public and Private clouds within multiple disparate cloud infrastructures. You will develop data insights by utilizing data analytics solutions and drive optimal utilization of storage which is cost effective. While Engineering projects will remain the focus of this role, working with customers to deploy cloud-based services to analyze and improve storage efficiencies based on utilization, performance, and TCO will be critical.
Additionally, the Cloud Storage Architect will own tasks to architect, design solutions by interfacing with Enterprise Architects, product managers, developers to escalate, reproduce, validate or debug solutions. You will also be working with other platform teams to help integrate cloud storage services into the larger ecosystem. You will identify opportunities in the ecosystem that will help us to unlock higher value for cloud storage service offerings, by reducing costs and improving performance. You will be part of a team of highly motivated engineers who work very well together.
Responsibilities
- Design, evangelize, advocate for, and optimize cross-functional Cloud and Enterprise Storage solutions that are high performant and cost effective.
- Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization.
- Initiate & drive significant architectural solutions/decisions of our Public and Private Clouds that will improve efficiency, performance, and reduce Cloud Storage spend.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives across storage services organization, with a focus on improving performance and next-gen tech stack adoption.
- Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on various cloud platforms.
- Partner with architects in Application and other platform teams and ensure alignment of solutions across the stack.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to track performance, availability, and cost metrics across the multi-cloud ecosystem.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and implement proactive measures to maintain high availability and service continuity.
- Leverage data analytics and AI tools to predict usage patterns, optimize resource allocations and enhance infrastructure performance.
- Build, tune, troubleshoot block, file and object storage systems in high availability storage clusters.
- Participate in on-call escalation chain during incidents and proactively troubleshoot issues.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for operational readiness.
- Design and maintain cloud storage best practices.
- Provide troubleshooting expertise for storage performance, availability and other issues.
- Train and educate others within Technology about Cloud technologies.
- Solve business needs by evaluating different storage technology options and vendor products.
- Develop and integrate provisioning and lifecycle tools for storage services components.
- Contribute to an environment that promotes and reinforces the highest standards of integrity and
- ethics.
- Demonstrates creativity and strength in the face of change, obstacles, or adversity.
- Adapt to competing demands and shifting priorities.
Qualifications
In addition to being technically sound, results driven with a strong operational background and impressive analytical ability, you will need the following to be successful:
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and understanding of various cloud storage abstraction layers to select the right technology for the application storage needs, with a focus on designing solutions that meet the performance requirements at an optimal cost.
- Experience supporting large scale, highly available, production Cloud Storage deployments in public and private cloud environments.
- Experience with any combination of Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, S3, Azure managed disks, Google persistent disks.
- Experience with cloud storage services, resource management, and cloud architecture.
- Experience in troubleshooting issues during an incident and drive down MTTR across the platform
- Experience with enterprise storage solutions (such as Pure, NetApp, Portworx) is desirable.
- Experience with software defined storage systems such as Ceph is an added advantage.
- Experience with software development skills using Python/Go.
- Experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
- Experience in Architecting infra solutions for applications
- Experience with monitoring, reporting tools and data analytics.
- Experience with managing cloud budgets and tools for analysis.
- Good understanding of clustered/distributed systems.
- Experience working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc.) and solid understanding of Service Monitoring, KPI, SLA, Disaster Recovery.
- Deep experience with the Linux ecosystem, automation of common tasks, and configuration of systems monitoring tools.
- Experience with capacity/performance management, monitoring and tuning.
- Experience with Network Storage, Replication and Backups (SAN, iSCSI, NFS, etc.) is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with other organizations across the business while managing customer expectations.
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in CS or similar field of study OR work equivalent
- Work equivalent of 8+ years of experience in cloud & storage, and more than 15 years of work experience in software engineering industry.
Note: Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this position in the Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Reston or Hoboken locations.
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.
