Data Assurance Analyst III, Cybersecurity

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team:
Walmart’s Data Assurance Team protects and defends Walmart and associate data against inadvertent or malicious data loss to help safeguard customer trust and enterprise continuity.

This position is located in Bentonville, AR and is part of the incident management organization, which is comprised of the Security Operations Center, Incident Response, Hunt Team, Data Assurance, and Cyber Intelligence. This Data Assurance Team operates various shifts across the week to ensure coverage twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The schedule for this salaried position with an overnight pay differential, is from 6:00pm to 6:00am each shift, and rotates from a short week to a long week. The short week is Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, while the long week is Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Applicants are expected to demonstrate an understanding of information technology and cybersecurity concepts and utilize critical thinking skills to make informed, actionable decisions. Members of this team are expected to analyze data using provided tools, evaluate the level of risk associated with the activity, and articulate the details of the identified activity to various stakeholders. Strong communication skills are necessary for this position, as a successful applicant would need to be able to communicate with various members within Information Security or other key stakeholders to answer questions, provide guidance, and escalate priority matters.

What you'll do:

As a Data Assurance Analyst with Walmart, you will monitor data movement by utilizing data loss prevention (DLP) tools in accordance with internal policies. This includes analyzing alerts, finding correlating contextual datapoints, and determining the appropriate path moving forward for one of the world’s largest networks. You will have the opportunity to protect the data of millions of customers, associates, and Walmart’s ever-expanding infrastructure across the globe. This role will put you on the cyber-frontlines with some of the world’s top security experts. If you desire to gain experience in the cybersecurity industry, are self-motivated, curious, and strive to continually improve yourself, your peers, and your team, this is the place for you. We are looking for a team player who thrives on successfully executing the mission, building relationships with others, and contributing to Walmart’s mission of being the most trusted retailer to join us. You’ll collaborate with a variety of internal business partners to ensure risks are mitigated, processes are improved, make an impact to the cybersecurity industry, and work with data at a scale only possible at Walmart. You’ll build an understanding of security threats and DLP ensuring coverage and detection exists across multiple layers of technology to improve the overall cybersecurity defense posture.

What you'll bring:

• General understanding of information technology and/or cybersecurity principles along with a security mindset
• Self-motivated, having an open and curious mind, ability to raise innovative ideas, and a heightened sense of urgency
• Endurance to work overnights and adaptability
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Critical thinking skills and ability to troubleshoot problems to understand root causes
• Healthy competitive spirit and strong moral compass aligned with Walmart culture
• Team player mindset and willingness to support various operational related projects
• Desire for personal development and seek cutting edge industry knowledge
• Proven analytical experience.
• Can articulate technical details pertaining to cybersecurity concepts for non-technical audiences
• Have cybersecurity or information technology related certifications
• Experience with information technology at scale
• Have experience working cross-functionally with other information security disciplines, i.e., incident response, security operations, cyber-intelligence
• Knowledge with at least one scripting language
• Have hands-on DLP experience
• Experience building and maintaining automated alerts and dashboards

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. 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.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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