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SalaryCostco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.
This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.
Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
DevOps Engineers automate software builds, test and deployment systems, and infrastructure as code. DevOps Engineers manage various development, test, staging, and demo environments (code deployment using Continuous Improvement (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines, backups, data refreshes), as well as deploy and manage software into Costco’s production environment while leveraging as much automation as possible. They are responsible for continually advancing the technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment using many of the latest technologies and industry best practices and finding better and more efficient ways of delivering solutions that meet business objectives.
Key responsibilities include deploying and managing software builds (maintenance and feature updates) of custom developed software, maintaining configurations, researching, developing, and implementing solutions to maintain and enhance current systems, provide 2nd and 3rd level support to other IT staff and support the daily needs of our Software Development and Quality Assurance departments.
The successful candidate will be interested in improving the development and testing team’s experience, is security-conscious, and detail oriented when designing deployment processes and contributes to rolling out faster and better applications for Costco Travel members.
If you want to be a part of one of the worldwideBEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.
ROLE
- Configures and maintains on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure availability, performance, scalability and security of development, testing and production environments, relying on automated scripts and configuration management tools.
- Creates, and manages Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Maintains, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
- Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or standalone releases across multiple interconnected and disperse applications.
- Creates the pipeline to periodically generate code quality metrics.
- Drives each team to be self-sufficient by providing tools and training and brings different teams together to work towards common goals.
- Coordinates resources across technology functions to stand up and monitor environments.
- Configures and automates development and test environment, deployment, automation and support test data management.
- Establishes workflows that use the automated pipelines for CI and CD.
- Works closely with product and application teams to create version control branching strategy.
- Works cross-value streams with other DevOps Engineers to avoid and resolve merge conflicts.
- Develops tool integrations that allow for end to end traceability for application development (from requirements to code objects changed to meet the requirements).
- Handles the deployment, administration, maintenance, and operation of production, testing, and development environments.
- Develops and operates end-to-end automated solutions for IT ops activities (including deployment, release management,
- monitoring, etc.).
- Collaborates with Operations, Development, and QA functions to build, monitor, update, maintain, and operate our systems.
- Uses industry standard tools to improve and speed up delivery of our products and services.
- Provides fast and thoughtful issue resolution by executing quick fixes or proactively identifying and solving problems related
- to builds in production environments.
- Troubleshoots and resolves issues in development, testing, and production environments.
- Supports and improves tools for continuous integration, streamlines our operations, processes, and releases
- management.
- Takes initiative by staying up to date with tools and technologies to increase efficiency and reliability of CI/CD, as well as being involved with administration and maintenance.
- Participates in meetings as required adding value as a subject matter expert when required.
- Provides training and documentation to others as needed or required.
- Serves as an escalation resource.
REQUIRED
- 4+ years’ working in a Microsoft Server OS environment (Windows 2012 R2 or higher).
- 2+ years’ Development Operations / System Administration experience.
- 1+ years’ supporting an E-commerce environment.
- 1+ years’ experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef or equivalent.
- 1+ years’ experience using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins or Travis.
- 1+ years’ using scripting/programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Perl, Ant, PowerShell, etc.
- 1+ years with Linux, preferably CentOS or RHEL, administration.
- Experience with version control (GIT).
- Experience working in an Agile, Scrum or Kanban environment.
- Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.
Recommended
- BA/BS Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with Webserver setup, configuring, and maintenance.
- Experience with OS hardening and performance tuning.
- Experience with containers and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Experience with application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic.
- Experience with high availability and scalable infrastructures.
- Experience with Microsoft SQL or other relational databases.
- Familiarity with software-defined networking and storage, IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
- Familiarity with a PaaS or IaaS platform for private clouds, such as: VMware, OpenStack, CloudFoundry.
- Experience in regulated environments (e.g. PCI, SOX).
- Experience with Azure or other cloud providers.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
Required Documents
- Cover Letter
- Resume
California applicants, please click here to review the Costco Applicant Privacy Notice.
Pay Ranges:
Level 2 - $110,000 - $145,000
Level 3 - $135,000 - $175,000
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.
Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.
