Platform Engineer - Enterprise Container 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.

Platform Engineers translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Solution Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives. Platform Engineers are well versed in modern data, infrastructure and integration platforms, industry/technology best practices, and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.

This position is responsible for the design, support, installation, and configuration of Costco Enterprise Container Platforms (ECP) using Google GKE, Azure AKS, and OpenShift in both Cloud and On-Prem Environments.

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

● Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.

● Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and executes updates based on SLAs.

● Manages the platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring, patching, and support.

● Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.

● Conducts regular platform checkups and report inefficiencies to relevant business and technology stakeholders.

● Collaborates with infrastructure and/or provisioning groups to stand up the platform.

● Develops and builds scalable and generalized frameworks to support the integration of internal and third-party APIs.

● Performs analysis on existing platform components to identify improvements to software development processes.

● Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

● Participates in the creation of documentation and artifacts used to describe the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.

● Collaborates with Architects and technology team members to define development tasks and activities within technical user stories to support the implementation of Infrastructure as a code solution.

● Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to ensure its reliability.

● Plans and Implements arrangements for Disaster Recovery and conducts related testing of recovery procedures.

● Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering with technology vendors.

● Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services.

● Tests diagnostics (including) automated regression testing.

● Authors and executes test cases related to supporting the implementation of platform development work.

● Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with the Architects.

● Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices as well as regulatory requirements.

● Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.

● Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

● Evaluates and documents all operating systems according to required standards.

● Participates in the development of continuous integration/continuous development frameworks in support of DevOps and Agile practices.

● Delivers project-based work to agreed target dates and notifies project manager and engineer of any roadblocks.

● Works with vendors, business and application development teams, and other technical teams to meet the needs of the project.

● Installs, configures, and monitors all applications on Container Platform(s). Design, deploy, and manage GKE, AKS, OpenShift cluster.

● Develops and implements best practices for cluster management and scaling.

● Works with team, engineers, and EA to implement and support the project's infrastructure design.

● Monitors load tests, performs deploys, reviews logs, and various other tasks to maintain the middleware portfolio.

● Seeks opportunities to learn, automate, document, share, educate, and improve processes where appropriate.

● Participates in DevOps, Agile, and continuous integration frameworks.

● Follows corporate security standards and best practices, including the promotion of awareness on current threats.

● Understands and adheres to Costco’s project methodology and framework, Costco’s Mission Statement and Code of Ethics.

REQUIRED

● 2+ years’ experience operating enterprise container orchestration platforms in production.

● 2+ years’ Kubernetes administration experience on AKS (preferred), Red Hat OpenShift (preferred), EKS, GKE, Rancher, or similar.

● 2+ years’ experience managing infrastructure on Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.

● 2+ years’ experience with tools for CI/CD like Azure pipelines (preferred), Gitlab, Jenkins, or similar.

● 2+ years’ experience supporting products running on AIX or Linux servers.

● 2+ years’ experience with enterprise monitoring and logging solutions like Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, ELK, or similar.

● 2+ years’ experience working with tools for IaC and automation like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar.

● Competency in at least one high level programming language such as Golang (preferred), Python, JAVA, JavaScript/NodeJS, or similar.

● Practical understanding of Agile concepts, SDLC, and test-driven development.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Willing to learn third party applications and tools.

● Willing to split time between development and operations tasks.

● Fundamental networking knowledge.

● Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, including evenings, weekends and/or holidays, as necessary.

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.

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