DevOps Engineer - Global Business Application & Platform Services

About the role

The Costco IT department is responsible for driving the technological advancement of Costco Wholesale, a global retail giant operating in fourteen countries. Our team fosters a supportive and innovative environment where employees can thrive and contribute to the company's success. We prioritize our employees and their well-being, reflecting in our commitment to community service and philanthropy.

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.

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. 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 (GCP) 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.

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 (GCP) 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.

Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, network technologies, application security, and infrastructure architecture.
• High integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and willingness to do what it takes to make the team successful.

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

Benefits

• 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.

Company Commitment

• Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Costco is an equal opportunity employer.

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.

Application Process

• 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.