Job Summary:
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world. The DevOps Engineer will automate software builds, test and deployment systems, and manage various development environments while leveraging automation to enhance efficiency.
Responsibilities:
• 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 dispersed 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).
• Design, provision, and manage enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure across GCP. This includes the administration of subscriptions, resource groups, and policy management, alongside complex networking configurations such as VNets and private endpoints to ensure a secure, high-availability landing zone.
• Engineer Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Lead the development and optimization of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows using Google DevOps.
• Oversee the full release orchestration lifecycle—from source control and branch policies to automated testing and deployment—ensuring consistent delivery across diverse application boundaries.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Programmability: Develop modular, reusable, and idempotent infrastructure templates using Terraform (HCL), Bash, and PowerShell.
• Ability to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years’ IT experience.
• Experience in software development and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Tooling and Automation: Source, Build/Test/Scan, Artifacts, Deploy.
• Environments, Lifecycles, Application Boundaries, and Release Orchestration.
• Reusable Steps & Scripting.
• Working experience with infrastructure as code driven through CI/CD pipelines.
• Templating, Modularity, Idempotency, and Reusability.
• Provisioners vs. Configuration Management.
• Experience provisioning and managing Azure cloud services with: Subscriptions, policy management, resource groups.
• Networking, VNets, private endpoints.
• Google Cloud Platform Active Directory and Google Cloud Platform RBAC.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) IaaS and PaaS.
• Experience with the following: Terraform HCL v0.13+, JSON, Powershell v5+, Bash v4+.
• Google Cloud Platform DevOps Programmability.
• Google Cloud Platform CLI & Terraform.
• Azure DevOps for Project planning and tracking.
• Repositories, repository permissions, and branch policies, Pipelines and variables.
• Solid understanding of development/coding methodologies.
• Team player; good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills, as well as creative, likes challenges.
Preferred:
• 5+ years’ experience deploying enterprise Google cloud technologies.
• 8+ years’ experience with enterprise infrastructure and software systems.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certification(s) preferred.
• Ability to automate software defined networking.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies.
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Company:
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve countries. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Issaquah, WA, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.