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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates deep expertise in Kubernetes and service mesh technologies, with a strong focus on building scalable, reliable distributed systems. Proven ability to lead technical strategy, mentor engineers, and establish observability standards while ensuring secure service communication.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Kubernetes/Container OrchestrationService Mesh TechnologiesTraffic ManagementCloud-Native NetworkingObservability with Prometheus/Grafana
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Hard Skills
KubernetesService MeshTraffic ManagementCloud-Native NetworkingSRE PrinciplesGitOpsCI/CDTerraformGoPrometheus
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationInfluencing Without Authority
Tools & Technologies
IstioLinkerdConsulApp MeshEnvoyOpenTelemetryGrafanaHelmKustomize
Industry Keywords
Distributed SystemsZero TrustService DiscoveryControl Plane OperationsCapacity Planning
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudConsulDistributed SystemsDNSGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonScalaTerraformGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the technical strategy and architecture for the service mesh platform across multi-cluster, multi-environment deployments
- Drive design and implementation of traffic management, resiliency patterns, and secure service-to-service communication
- Build and evolve platform capabilities for onboarding services at scale through templates, golden paths, automation, and self-service workflows
- Partner with application, SRE, security, and network teams to define standards for service connectivity, identity, and zero-trust posture
- Own performance, reliability, and scalability goals for the mesh control/data plane; define SLOs, SLIs, and operational runbooks
- Establish observability standards and enable end-to-end visibility across services and clusters
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
- Evaluate and introduce new mesh capabilities, including ambient/service-less patterns, gateways, WASM/extensibility, and multi-tenancy
- Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering rigor through design reviews, technical documentation, and testing strategy
- Represent the team in architecture forums, communicate trade-offs, and align stakeholders on platform roadmaps
- Enable secure, reliable, and standardized runtime capabilities for Walmart application teams and systems serving millions of customers and associates
Requirements
What you’ll need- 15–20 years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and platforms
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes/container orchestration, including cluster architecture, networking, upgrades, multi-cluster, RBAC, admission, and controllers/operators
- Strong hands-on experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or App Mesh
- Experience with traffic management, security, gateways, ingress/egress patterns, service discovery, and control plane operations
- Strong understanding of cloud-native networking, including CNI, Envoy/L7 proxies, DNS, east-west traffic, gateways, and load balancing
- Experience designing for reliability and scale, including SRE principles, SLOs, capacity planning, and failure-mode analysis
- Experience building platform tooling and automation, including GitOps, CI/CD, Helm/Kustomize, and Terraform or similar IaC
- Proficiency in at least one systems language: Go preferred; Java, Scala, or Python acceptable
- Deep observability experience with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing
- Strong security mindset, including zero trust, least privilege, and secret management
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence without authority
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area; or 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
Benefits
Comp & perks- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
- Compensation package