DevOps Engineer - Global Business Application & Platform Services

About the role

The Costco IT department is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, a global retailer with a strong focus on employee-centric culture and community involvement. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in transforming the retail environment, ensuring that software builds, tests, and deployments are automated and efficient.

Responsibilities

• Create and apply software development and security standards and practices.
• Plan, design, and document software components.
• Develop and operate end-to-end automated solutions for IT operations (deployment, release management, monitoring).
• Collaborate with Operations, Development, and QA functions to develop scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Configure and maintain on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Create and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Maintain and extend automated CI and CD pipelines.
• Drive self-sufficiency within teams by providing tools and training.
• Coordinate resources across technology functions to stand up and monitor environments.
• Manage development and test environments, deployment, automation, and support test data management.
• Create workflows using automated pipelines for CI and CD.
• Create version control branching strategies.
• Work cross-value streams to resolve merge conflicts.
• Develop tool integrations for end-to-end traceability in application development.
• Engineer Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Lead CI/CD workflow development and optimization.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Programmability: Develop reusable infrastructure templates using Terraform, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on-call responsibilities.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Programmability.
• Provisioners vs. Configuration Management.
• Experience with Azure cloud services.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Ability to automate software-defined networking.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies.
• Proficient in Google Workspace applications.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of development/coding methodologies.
• Team player; good interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• Recommended 5+ years’ experience deploying enterprise Google cloud technologies.
• 8+ years’ experience with enterprise infrastructure and software systems.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certification(s) preferred.

Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, network technologies, application security, and infrastructure architecture.

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 Staff - $180,000 - $225,000
• Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Application Instructions

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.