Defense Engineer

Position Summary

Position Summary...

About Team:

At Walmart, we prioritize innovation and data security. Our team is dedicated to maintaining a secure operating environment and preserving the trust of our customers, associates, and stakeholders. We combine a range of services and expertise to prevent fraud, detect threats, manage digital risk, and access. Our focus is on identifying and detecting risks, supporting our SOAR platform, and fostering a culture of security and reliability within our team.

What we do: Help detect malicious or suspicious activities across various environments. Utilizing IOCs, TTPs, and intelligence to detect anomalous behaviors that may otherwise go undetected. Work with a team to provide interrelated services, processes, and practices that seek to prevent, identify, minimize, and neutralize cyber threats to our organization.
What you'll do: Create, and maintain detections for advanced cyber threats. Work cross functionally with teams across Security Operations, Response, Information Security, and our Global Tech organization.
What you'll bring:

• Create custom TTP based detections and validate efficacy
• Support Security Operations
• Improve or tune existing detections and controls
• Manage detection lifecycle
• Create playbooks
• Improve Walmart's security posture
• Help develop and implement detection strategies
• 3-4 years of detection engineering or 4-5 years of advanced SOC Analysis experience

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates.

To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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.

In-Office Collaboration As one of the more senior members of our team, your in-person presence on campus will be essential in fostering collaboration, mentorship, and team success. You will play a pivotal role in guiding and supporting colleagues while addressing onsite needs, making you a key contributor to the development of others and the smooth functioning of our operations. We believe that working together in person allows us to make quicker decisions, build stronger connections, and drive shared success.

Our campuses serve as hubs of collaboration, offering a dynamic environment where ideas flourish, relationships thrive, and opportunities for personal and professional growth are abundant. This approach is core to our culture and instrumental in achieving our collective goals. If you're passionate about technical leadership, mentorship, and contributing to a vibrant team environment, we look forward to welcoming you to our collaborative and growth-focused campus culture.

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,…