IMAC Analyst - Data Center

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.

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.

If you are an ambitious, energetic person who enjoys a fast-paced team environment filled with challenges and opportunities, you've come to the right place. Costco is seeking a dedicated and experienced Data Center Analyst to join our Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) team. The selected candidate will be responsible for working with Engineers and Solutions Architects throughout the IT organization to design, plan, and install equipment within Costco’s data centers located in Wenatchee, Quincy, and Issaquah Washington. The successful candidate will be knowledgeable in networking, storage, and server deployments and have experience provisioning and racking of hardware.

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

• Gathers information for the other groups within CDS regarding their physical environment and potential work intended within the Data Center.
• Executes tasks and changes through other groups in CDS, on behalf of the business.
• Provides technical, scheduling, and manpower requirements to Release Management for proper Change Management.
• Performs twice daily Data Center floor walks to identify areas of concern (i.e. equipment, safety, power and cooling).
• Evaluates outages and determine the appropriate corrective action for resolution.
• Manages the full Return Machine Authorization (RMA) cycle within the Data Center (i.e. receive, catalog, properly store, and implement the equipment).
• Manages project schedule for installation and configuration of equipment.
• Manages the priority of the portfolio of work to ensure the highest priority work is completed first.
• Evaluates technical specifications of proposed equipment to determine power and cooling needs in order to determine optimum placement of equipment in racks within PODS.
• Manages task assignments within ServiceNow.
• Reconciles placement of physical equipment within the Sunbird Asset Management system and makes any necessary changes.
• Manages the lifecycle (i.e. receipt, operation, and decommission) of equipment within the Data Center.
• Reconciles the requests from other CDS groups regarding the desired location of equipment with the preferred physical location of the equipment based on power, cooling, and networking considerations.
• Executes a site survey of the space, power, cooling, and networking based on the requirements provided by another CDS team.
• Uses prior experience operating fiber optic test equipment.

REQUIRED

• Demonstrated extensive experience installing fiber, copper, and twinax cabling in an Enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience understanding how patch panels work and experience using them within the data center.
• Demonstrated extensive experience in rack and stacking equipment up to 50lbs and cabling devices to the network.
• Understands base level configuration of networking and compute devices.
• Proven experience troubleshooting enterprise level data center equipment and correcting issues found with fiber or copper cabling.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating large IT projects for networking, storage, and compute.
• Proven coordination with Engineers and Solution Architects as well as Executive Management within IT.
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple sites in Wenatchee, Quincy, and Issaquah as well as other locations.
• Minimum 5 years of experience operating in an enterprise data center.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as needed.

Recommended

• Certification in Data Center Expert or Data Center Authority.
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

California applicants, please review the Costco Applicant Privacy Notice.

Pay Range: $110,000 - $140,000

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.