DevOps Engineer

Enterprises • Bentonville, Arkansas, United States • 1w ago

Overview

Walton Enterprises is seeking a skilled, highly motivated, and entrepreneurial individual to join the team as a DevOps Engineer. The ideal teammate will be an expert in DevOps methodologies with a passion and demonstrated ability to build, automate, maintain, and optimize cloud-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and monitoring solutions. This individual will display strong knowledge of automation tools, cloud platforms, and modern development practices to support scalable, secure, and efficient software delivery. This position will require extensive collaboration, mentoring, and partnering to establish best practices, ensure system reliability, and empower the team to achieve operational excellence.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
We believe every associate should have access to success. Creating an environment centered on trust, respect, and bringing people together is critical to this belief.

- Our aspirations are as follows:Create an environment where we hire, retain and bring to the table people with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints and lived experiences to create a more successful organization.
- Ensure fairness, equity and access to success for all of our associates.
- Create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, safe, able to engage honestly.

About the Position

About the IT Department
The Information Technology Department provides a suite of services including hardware and software support, custom application development, cybersecurity, networking, and tools for software integration. These services are provided to Walton Enterprises, the Walton Family Foundation and to Walton Family Entities.
About Walton Enterprises
Walton Enterprises supports the personal, philanthropic, and business activities of the Walton family. We are a family-led organization supporting multiple generations of Sam & Helen Walton’s family.

Walton Enterprises is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building and maintaining a culturally diverse workplace that is free of discrimination and harassment of any kind. We encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

Responsibilities

About the Position

As a DevOps Engineer, you will lead and contribute to the development, implementation, and management of cloud infrastructure and tools to support our software development lifecycle. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including peer software engineers, database engineers, and infrastructure, to create seamless integrations between systems. You will also provide technical leadership and mentorship, enabling the team to build and maintain a resilient and scalable system infrastructure.

What you will do (responsibilities):

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Administer, optimize, and scale GCP resources, including but not limited to:
- Cloud Run, Compute Engine for containerized application
- Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery for data
- Pub/Sub and Dataproc for data streaming and processing
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform to manage GCP resources programmatically.
Ensure proper configuration and management of GCP networking components, such as VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, and Cloud NAT.

Deployment and CI/CD

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools to automate application build, test, and deployment processes.
Oversee the deployment of js and NestJS applications in GCP environments, ensuring efficient server-side rendering and API operations.
Optimize application deployment workflows to leverage Cloud Run for serverless hosting when appropriate.

Monitoring and Security

Set up and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Prometheus/Grafana.
Implement robust security practices, including identity and access management (IAM), secure service-to-service communication, and integration with Secret Manager.
Conduct regular audits of GCP environments to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities or inefficiencies.

Collaboration and Documentation

Work closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application
Document infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and incident response plans for seamless knowledge transfer.
Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers in cloud practices and DevOps

Qualifications

Who we are looking for (qualifications for success):

Education/Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and/or a minimum of 5 years of experience in software development.

Cloud Platform Expertise

Extensive hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its key
Proficiency in managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes and
Strong grasp of GCP-native services like Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.

Automation and Scripting

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, or
Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Go for

Application Deployment

Deep knowledge of deploying and scaling js and NestJS applications.
Understanding of server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and API gateway configurations.
Familiarity with TypeScript and modern JavaScript

CI/CD and Version Control

Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab, or
Expertise in managing version control workflows in

Monitoring and Performance Optimization

Experience with observability tools like Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, or
Proficiency in setting up log aggregation and query systems for incident

Security

Knowledge of GCP IAM roles, policies, and secure network
Familiarity with implementing secure workloads using Cloud Armor, Secret Manager, and Cloud Identity.

Integration Design and Authentication

Proven ability to diagram complex integrations and workflows using tools like Lucidchart, Miro, or Visio, with a focus on clarity and scalability.
Expertise in SaaS integrations, including Okta SSO for secure user authentication and authorization across systems.
Experience leveraging Auth0 for custom applications where Okta is proxied through an Auth0 enterprise connection.
Proficiency in integrating and consuming APIs to enable seamless data synchronization and automation between platforms.

Additional Helpful Experience Includes

Collaborative: Passion for solving challenges together, sharing inspirations, and working as a team.
Innovative: Strive to find the best possible solutions given complex constraints and accelerated timelines.
Leadership: Contribute to the success of our technology platforms and drive critical components from inspiration to delivery.
Ownership: Strong ownership of our product and the customers we
Results Driven: Ability to give that final push to deliver critical features on
Humble: Seek advice from peers to solve our most challenging
Business/Tech Expertise: Accounting and/or Investment systems , including data and BI

Personal attributes that support your success

Trusted advisor to principals and colleagues while demonstrating expertise and
Results-oriented team player who is helpful, respectful, and
Exercises sound judgment and makes data-driven
A lifelong learner who is inquisitive and solves problems with bold thinking and
A visionary who plans for the future with imagination and
Dedicated to achieving operational

All offers of employment are contingent on your successful completion (where permitted by state law) of a confidentiality agreement and background check. In addition, you will need to provide proper identification verifying your eligibility to work in the United States on your first day of work.