What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer - Digital eCommerce position at Costco?
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 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 Costco Digital - part of the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco Digital is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation digital retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees. We are embarking on a large digital transformation and need team members like you to help us grow to the next level.
The Digital DevOps Engineer will automate infrastructure as code in deployment systems in both Azure production and non-production environments. They will 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. DevOps Engineers 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.
Our Digital team is transforming how we deliver solutions and interact with our members across our Mobile, Commerce and Order Management platforms. We have a culture of improvement & learning with a start up mentality and a customer centric approach for our Costco members and our employees. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team and pursue bold ideas and explore growth opportunities.
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
● 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).
REQUIRED
● 5-7 years’ experience working with Azure platform and products, such as AKS, VMs, Logic Apps.
● Proficient in the set up and use of Azure monitoring.
● Proficient with Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, and other orchestration tools.
● Proficient at troubleshooting on premises IIS, Rest Calls, Firewalls, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity, data flows, business processes.
● Automation and orchestration using Puppet, Powershell, and Shell scripting.
● Proficiency with at least one scripting/programming language: PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.
● Willing to share knowledge with co-workers and to assist them in understanding technical and business topics.
● Working knowledge of networking protocols, web technologies, and cloud computing.
● Team player and willingness to establish a strong positive working relationship with all areas of the business.
● Ability to work effectively, independent of assistance or supervision.
● Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.
Recommended
● Advanced Azure Certifications.
● Experience building, troubleshooting, and supporting large and complex Digital eCommerce solutions.
● Experience working with DevOps engineering to establish best practices, readiness, SLA’s, and capacity planning.
Required Documents
● Cover Letter
● Resume
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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. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.
Salary : $110,000 - $145,000
