Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

VIZIO is seeking a seasoned Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead and see to the professional growth of a talented Kubernetes Platform Engineering team. This role is responsible for managing our platform as a product that enables our engineering organization to build, deploy, and scale applications with speed and confidence. This includes driving and prioritizing the technical strategy and roadmap by balancing business requirements, engineering excellence, stakeholder needs, and customer experience. This role also involves cultivating strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, gathering feedback and feature requests from platform tenants, and actively marketing the platform to drive adoption and ensure satisfaction.
  About the team:

Own the next-generation container orchestration platform that meets the ambitious goals of Walmart and the specific needs of VIZIO, with a multi-cloud Kubernetes-based solution centered on modern best practices and automation, allowing maintainability, performance, reliability, resilience, observability, and security at scale.
 
You'll be working with talented and dedicated Kubernetes experts bringing forth the platform that will support the millions of TVs projected to join our fleet in the years to come, and positioning them in the vanguard of the platform-as-a-product movement, which emphasizes engagement with Engineers as customers, to understanding their needs, and in turn, drive the platform's direction and growth.
  What you'll do:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform engineers, foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning, and instill a drive to consistently deliver value
• Be a Product Owner: Balance technical priorities with customer needs, align the roadmap with company strategy and customer requirements, build strong relationships with teams to ensure their satisfaction, gather feedback and translate them into features, and market the platform to increase adoption 
• Partner with architects and engineers to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency of the platform, and gently guide engineering towards good standards and recommended practices 
• Oversee operational excellence and timely delivery of platform features
• Collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure teams
• Communicate priorities and progress to stakeholders and leadership 

  What you'll bring:

• Proven experience in leading platform or infrastructure teams 
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native technologies 
• Experience acting as a product owner for internal developer platforms or infrastructure projects 
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and inspire stakeholders across an engineering organization 
• Ability to think strategically about the role of platforms in enabling engineering productivity 
• Successfully drove adoption of internal platform and services in an engineering organization 
• Proven experience in influencing technology roadmaps, aligning competing proposals, with bias towards action and deliverables 
• Experience with large scale operations, and building scalable, performant, reliable and resilient solutions 
• Proficiency in project management, prioritizing requirements, and guiding teams through agile methodologies.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $121,000.00 - $242,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: 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.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...

55 Madison St, Denver, CO 80206-5419, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.