Costco Maintenance Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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 Travel 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.

Key responsibilities include deploying and managing software builds (maintenance and feature updates) of our custom
developed software, maintaining configurations, researching, developing, and implementing solutions to maintain and enhance
current systems, and providing 2nd and 3rd level support to other IT staff. The selected candidate is interested in improving the
development and testing team's experience, is security-conscious, and detail oriented when designing deployment processes
and contributes to rolling out faster and better applications for Costco Travel members. Our vision is to continuously improve
build and configuration management tools and processes, as well as best practices to meet the needs of scaling applications
throughout our SDLC.

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 standalone 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).

Handles the deployment, administration, maintenance, and operation of production, testing, and development environments.

Troubleshoots and resolves issues in our development, testing, and production environments.

Supports and improves our tools for continuous integration, streamlines our operations, processes, and releases management.

Takes initiative by staying up to date with tools and technologies to increase efficiency and reliability of CI/CD, as well as being involved with their administration and maintenance.

Participates in meetings as required adding value as a subject matter expert when and where required.

Provides training and documentation to others as needed or required.

Provides 24/7 On-Call support as part of a scheduled rotation with other team members.

Serves as an escalation resource.

REQUIRED

4+ years' working in a Microsoft Server OS environment (Windows 2012 R2 or higher).

2+ years of Development Operations / System Administration experience.

1+ years' supporting an E-commerce environment.

1+ years' experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or equivalent.

1+ years' experience using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins or Travis.

1+ years' using scripting/programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Perl, Ant, PowerShell, etc.

1+ years with Linux, preferably CentOS or RHEL, administration.

Experience with version control (GIT).

Experience working in an Agile, Scrum or Kanban environment.

Recommended

Experience with Webserver setup, configuring, and maintenance.

BA/BS Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent work experience.

Experience with OS hardening and performance tuning.

Skilled with containers and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).

Demonstrated ability with application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, New Relic.

Experience with high availability and scalable infrastructures.

Extensive background with Microsoft SQL or other relational databases.

Familiarity with software-defined networking and storage, IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.

Familiarity with a PaaS or IaaS platform for private clouds, such as VMware, OpenStack, CloudFoundry.

Experience in regulated environments (e.g. PCI, SOX).

Experience with Azure or other cloud providers.

Excellent organizational and communication skills.

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

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.