About the team:

Walmart GTP team is the Platforms team for Walmart. This position is for Data Services First Contact team where the team is responsible to take care of support & operational activities for Search products viz., Elastic Search, Open Search &

- Solr. Building automations for mundane tasks & amplifying operational excellence is the main focus for the team.

This team works in rotational shift which changes in every two weeks.

What Youll Do:

Automation Engineering:

- Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions to eliminate repetitive manual tasks across engineering workflows.
- Leverage scripting/coding languages (Java, Python, Shell, SQL etc.) and automation frameworks to increase engineering efficiency and consistency.
- Knowledge of AI-powered developer productivity tools e.g., GitHub Copilot, Generative AI tools and Large Language Model (LLM) concepts, Prompt engineering techniques for code generation, debugging, ML/AI frameworks at a working level, Vector databases, embeddings, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MLOps. Proactively identify candidates for automation across operations, deployments, and testing pipelines.
- Triaging &
- Issue Resolution - Analyze, prioritize, and resolve technical issues for products (Elastic Search, Open Search, Solr) of moderate to high complexity with a solid sense of ownership.
- Support Customers on product issues.
- Work on operational change requests. Familiar with tools like JIRA, Service NOW, Splunk, Grafana, MMS.

Incident Management:

Cloud, Data &

- DevOps:
- Leverage DevOps toolchains for CI/CD, container orchestration, and application lifecycle management.

What Youll bring:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology,



or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of hands-on software development & platform engineering experience.
- Proficiency in: Java, Python for production-grade development.
- Work experience in Search products viz., Elastic Search, Solr &
- Open Search is a big plus.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, Kibana, or OpenObserve.
- Experience with cloud platforms Azure, GCP, or AWS including managed services and infrastructure-as-code.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment at scale.
- Experience with incident management processes, ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow, PagerDuty, XMatters, JIRA), and SLA-driven operations.
- Working knowledge of configuration management tools and release management processes.
- Solid understanding of automation tooling and scripting (Shell, Python).
- Exposure to network monitoring concepts, SLIs/SLOs, and alerting frameworks.
- Experience working with data engineering pipelines or data platform infrastructure (e.g., Spark, BigQuery, Kafka).
- Knowledge of security best practices vulnerability management, RBAC, secret management.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
- Familiarity with requirement management practices including traceability matrices and risk classification.
- Ability to work in rotational/shift models (24/7) and support on-call escalations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for customer handling, technical documentation and stakeholder collaboration.
- Prior experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical discussions in a team setting.

📌 Walmart - Software Development Engineer III - Data Services (India)
🏢 Walmart
📍 India