Costco 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 eighth 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.

Costco’s Enterprise API Gateway team is looking for a highly ambitious, self-motivated, experienced, technical individual. The DevOps Engineers’ responsibilities will include the automation of software builds, test and deployment systems, and infrastructure.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

●Identifies, creates, and applies software development and security standards and practices.

●Plans, designs, and documents software components.

●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 develop solutions that are pre-disposed to scalability and simplified maintenance.

●Creates and manages Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

●Maintains, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

●Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or stand-alone releases across multiple interconnected and disperse applications.

●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.

●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.

●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).

●Configures, maintains, and optimizes infrastructure in multi cloud (Google and Azure).

●Designs, implements, and manages reliable build/deployment/test automation systems.

●Monitors official builds and drives infrastructure issues to resolution.

●Uses tools such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Azure Test Labs, and GitHub Actions to improve and speed up delivery of our products and services.

●Works with developers and the IT staff to oversee code releases.

●Participates in release processes and contributes to tooling improvement.

●Works with Product Owners to plan sprints; collaborates with Operations, Development, and QA functions to develop solutions that are predisposed to scalability and simplified maintenance.

●Mentors and aids junior employees in the process by providing guidance and feedback to ensure growth.

REQUIRED

●5 years’ IT experience.

●3 years’ experience with Automation and Orchestration tooling/technology (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).

●3 years’ software development and 3 year of infrastructure experience. Knowledge of Agile Methodologies (scrum, kanban).

●Experience supporting, maintaining, and monitoring pipelines (real time and batch).

●Experience provisioning and managing cloud services required, Google preferred.

●Solid understanding of development/coding methodologies.

●Significant use of orchestration tool sets, such as Kubernetes, Ansible, and Docker.

●Strong scripting skills (Powershell, Bash, Python etc.).

●Possesses high integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and is willing to do what it takes to make the team successful.

●Extremely responsive, able to work under pressure in crisis with a strong sense of urgency.

●Responsible, conscientious, organized, self-motivated, and able to work with limited supervision.

●Detail-oriented and possesses strong problem-solving skills and ability to proactively analyze for potential future issues.

●Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7.

Recommended

●Google Cloud, Terraform certification.

●Experience developing and operating end-to-end automated solutions for IT operations activities (including deployment, release management, monitoring, etc.). Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.

●Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.

●Experience with APIs and Web services.

●Knowledge of Information Security best practices and principles (certificates, encryption, etc.).

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Ranges: 

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

Level SR - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

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.