DevOps Engineer - Cloud Engineering at Costco in Issaquah, WA

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.

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.

The Costco Cloud team is responsible for providing multi-cloud infrastructure and the associated platforms, tools, and services required to onboard applications into the cloud globally. The Foundational Engineering team, architects, designs, and manages the implementation and configuration of Costco’s cloud platforms. The Cloud Express team is responsible for development of a zero-touch automated platform that deploys cloud infrastructure for value streams. The Cloud Onboarding team reviews value streams proposals and assigns priority to onboard applications to the cloud and provides feedback and recommendations for architecture, platforms, and resources. The Cloud Automation Tools team is responsible for the tools leveraged to store and deploy infrastructure as code to build resources within Costco’s hybrid, multi-cloud platforms. It is essential that the solutions factor in a multi-cloud environment and that requirements are gathered to clearly understand fit for purpose when designing or assisting with the solution. All of these functions leverage IaC best practices for implementation and configuration to maintain strong security posture, provide traceability, and ensure consistency.

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 predisposed to scalability and simplified maintenance.

● 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 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.

● 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).

● Assists in other areas of the department and company as necessary.

● Works on diagrams and documents orchestration system solutions, configurations, break/fix procedures.

● Defines and establishes standards for code and release management (branching strategies, PR process, etc), and manages versioning and governance for IaC (Terraform) versions and providers.

● Provides specific, relevant reporting to process stakeholders in support of root cause analysis, risk and event mitigation and elimination, and automation.

● Develops a strong understanding of Costco and/or industry Information Security policies and practices.

● Mentors and provides training to peers and value streams.

REQUIRED

● 8+ years’ experience automating deployment with DevOps tools in a cloud environmen.t

● 5+ years’ experience supporting CI/CD tools Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Terraform as platform administrators.

● Demonstrated proficiency with scripting languages, such as PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, etc.

● Ability to make configuration changes at scale using any scripting language or programming.

● Working experience with infrastructure as code building CI/CD pipelines, from a greenfield scenario.

● Experience in container technology, including Kubernetes (AKS, GKE) and Docker.

● Experience with automated management systems, such as Azure DevOps/Ansible/Jenkins/Terraform.

● Experience provisioning and managing cloud services (Azure, GCP) preferred.

● Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to logically think through problem situations.

● Solid understanding of application architecture, network technologies, application security, and infrastructure architecture.

● High integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and willingness to do what it takes to make the team successful.

● Team player; good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills. Creative, likes overcoming challenges.

● Proven ability to design, maintain, and continually improve enterprise level solutions.

● Experience with SDLC in an Agile environment.

● Ability to work well under pressure and handle crisis situations professionally.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas and designs to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

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.

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