Cloud DevOps Engineer - Cloud SRE & Operations

About the role

The Costco IT department is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, a global retailer with operations in fourteen countries. Known for its family-friendly culture and strong commitment to its employees and community, Costco seeks to hire talented individuals who can contribute to its innovative and dynamic IT environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Aids in onboarding value streams into the cloud IaC environments.
• Works closely with vendors to track overall cloud platform performance against agreed upon SLAs.
• Analyzes cloud usage patterns to help guide strategic architecture decisions.
• Maintains current, working knowledge of industry trends and best practices in Google and Azure cloud optimization.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• High integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and willingness 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Strong understanding of 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.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing fully automated solutions leveraging infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience responding to and resolving cloud support requests and incidents within defined SLAs.
• Experience with Google and Azure platforms and services.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Benefits

• 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.

Pay

• 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