2025 Intern Conversion: 2026 FT Penetration Testing Engineer III

Cyber Risk Management

This role requires knowledge of cyber risk assessment and management techniques, security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. Possible treatments of security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. Evolving security landscape and emerging cyber security threats. Assessment of potential business risks from security gaps. To comprehend the basics of cyber risk, adhere to the risk management policies of the organization, assist with guidance in identifying risk-prone areas in the business and infrastructure, and assist in implementing cyber risk management practices.

Managing Functional Partnerships

This role requires knowledge of stakeholder identification and mapping, stakeholder analysis, stakeholder communication, stakeholder engagement techniques, and stakeholder management effectiveness tools. Fluency in many specialized business vernacular, deep understanding of markets to deliver customer and business value, adapt style and best practices to accommodate cultural differences. To understand the interests and profiles of key stakeholders to manage functional relationships, analyze stakeholder technical needs, and partner with them to share relevant information. Engage with business partners internal and external on a periodic basis and establish credibility for exchanging functional information.

Network Operations

This role requires knowledge of network monitoring and alerting tools, monitoring metrics and KPIs, for example, availability, mean time between failure (MTBF), mean time to recover (MTTR), etc. Service level indicators (SLIs) for example, request latency, availability, error rate, etc. To maintain updated log and documentation of day-to-day levels of network performance, monitors current performance data to ensure adherence to defined SLOs for simple network applications/systems, comprehends the different types of alerts generated by the monitoring tools.

Requirement And Scoping Analysis

This role requires knowledge of traceability matrix, risk analysis methodologies, cost analysis, business objectives, classification of requirements, user stories, etc. To understand the business, stakeholder, technical requirements and assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs in case of agile methodology for the iteration, prepare requirement traceability matrix and maintain traceability between business requirements, functional requirements, design, and test cases. Contribute to the creation of user stories for component/module/simple requirements for example based on scalability, etc.

Penetration Testing Acumen

This role requires knowledge of security principles, security frameworks, methodologies, and controls, risk frameworks and methodologies, security testing techniques, secure coding frameworks and standards, scripting, operating systems, networking, mobile technology, cloud computing services, IoT/embedded systems, etc. To conduct security testing using tools, scripts, and basic manual techniques, determines applicable scopes for defined testing engagements, assesses security controls based on cybersecurity principles and tenets, independently validates applicable security controls, identifies technical security vulnerabilities, evaluates and applies appropriate severity ratings, recommends mitigation and remediation actions, recommends remediation prioritization based on risks, applies enhanced methods to validate controls and identify new vulnerabilities.

Network Design

This role requires knowledge of architectural blueprint design, evaluate and balance industry standards and best practices with business needs of network infrastructure designs, identify optimal topologies, platforms, and protocols, document associated design decisions and tradeoffs. To assist as part of a design team to specify and outline parts of larger network infrastructure components and systems.

Infrastructure Design

This role requires knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, tech stacks, non-functional requirements, security standards frameworks and methodologies, system security plan (SSP), security risk and compliance review (SRCR), etc. To assist in creation of simple, modular, extensible, and functional design for the product/solution in adherence to the requirements, evaluate tradeoffs while designing across multiple components in a system based on the business requirements, convert high-level design (HLD) to create detailed design for specific modules/components of a product/system, understand the nuances of designing for disaster recovery.

Act with Integrity

This role requires respect for the individual, demonstrating and encouraging respect for all, building a high-performing team, seeking and embracing differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, so associates thrive and perform, drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all, identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

This role requires acts with integrity, maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, and leads by example to foster our culture, supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company, by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us, e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving.

Serve our Customers and Members

This role requires deliver expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset, acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members, adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s strategy, strives for excellence, consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve, demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset, seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking, and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

This role requires strives for excellence, seeks and implements continuous improvements, and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.