Cloud DevOps Engineer - Cloud SRE & Operations

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.

Cloud Engineers design, implement, and maintain cloud solutions for the enterprise cloud platform e.g. Azure to meet the evolving needs of the business. Engineers demonstrate proficiency in cloud computing options and concepts including: Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), and public cloud, hybrid cloud and private cloud configurations.

Cloud Engineers design and implement fully automated solutions leveraging infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. All cloud automation patterns incorporate standardized security tooling in partnership with Information Security. Cloud Engineers respond to and resolve cloud support requests and incidents within defined SLAs.

The Cloud DevOps Engineer will be responsible for supporting and implementing sustained engineering standards and practices. This candidate will enable Costco value streams to deploy effective and cost-efficient cloud solutions, and be accountable for periodic reports detailing resource and cost trends. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross functional teams to drive cloud cost optimization initiatives.

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ROLE

• Supports Costco value streams IaC projects for troubleshooting and adherence to standards.
• Provides technical support to value streams at the design and operational phases of implementation.
• Assists with onboarding value streams into the cloud IaC environments.
• Works closely with vendors to track overall cloud platform performance against agreed upon SLAs.
• Maintains current, working knowledge of industry trends and best practices in Google and Azure cloud optimization.
• Analyzes cloud usage patterns to help guide strategic architecture decisions.
• Supports the development of cloud platform standards based on cost, capability and capacity requirements.
• Implements cloud native and 3rd party tools to monitor and maintain a stable cloud environment.
• Maintains a broad working knowledge of the Google and Azure platform and infrastructure service offerings.
• Collaborates cross functionally with application and infrastructure teams.
• Communicates and collaborates with stakeholders at all levels to understand their needs, gather feedback, and drive results.

Required

• 10+ years’ IT experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing industry standard IaC practices (Google,Azure, AWS) across a large IT organization.
• Working experience with relevant data and reporting tools (Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, cloud native dashboards & reports, Big Query, PowerBI).
• Working experience with Github, Copilot, GHAS, repositories and Github actions.
• Working knowledge of the Google and/or Azure platform and Google and/or Azure infrastructure services.
• Experience with Terraform, and IaC developing implementations into cloud environments.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud service problems, configurations and networking issues.
• Experience with developing and presenting documentation to all levels of the organization.
• Solid understanding of application architecture, network technologies, and infrastructure architecture.
• Must have high integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and be willing to do what it takes to make the team successful.
• Team player, good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. Creative, likes challenges.
• Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

Recommended

• 5+ years’ experience deploying enterprise cloud technologies.
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise infrastructure and software systems.
• Professional cloud infrastructure development experience recommended (Azure, Infrastructure as Code, Azure DevOps).
• Professional certification Terraform, Google, Azure, Networking recommended (Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Platform Engineering).
• Experience with GKE, AKS, Kubernetes and artifactory.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies (scrum, kanban).
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay Ranges

Level 1 - $85,000 - $110,000

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

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

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

Level STF- $180,000 - $225,000, 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. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.