Infrastructure Engineer - Digital Network

Evaluations

• Evaluates vendor hardware recommendations for operations reliability.

Automation

• Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes.
• Leverages API’s to automate activities and tasks.

Infrastructure Design and Deployment

• Architects, deploys, configures, and scales high-availability environments across enterprise cloud platforms (GCP/Azure) and on-premises infrastructure.
• Advances and maintains automated provisioning of Dev, Test, Staging, and Production environments utilizing Terraform and configuration management tools.
• Conducts performance and cost analysis on existing infrastructure components to recommend and implement optimizations for system growth.
• Designs, builds, and optimizes robust CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployments, infrastructure updates, and testing frameworks.
• Streamlines operations by leveraging APIs and scripting to automate repetitive tasks and eliminate manual intervention.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Collaborates with cross-functional development pods and QA teams in an Agile environment to champion DevOps best practices and improve environment stability.
• Maintains, patches, and supports digital cloud and on-prem application workloads (including Redis, Windows/Linux servers, BizTalk, and IHS).
• Designs, implements, and monitors application and infrastructure health dashboards using modern cloud-native observability tools and other monitoring tools.
• Identifies application and infrastructure bottlenecks, executes remediation measures to ensure continuous availability and adherence to SLAs.
• Configures, automates, and manages Next Generation Web Application Firewalls (NGWAF), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), DNS, Routing, Load Balancers, and SSL/TLS certificates.
• Develops security monitoring rules, alerts, and access policies; investigates potential security incidents using log analysis.
• Reviews vulnerability scan reports and conducts periodic assessments to remediate security gaps, ensuring strict compliance with information security policies, Privacy requirements, IT standards, and regulatory controls (including PCI, SOX).
• Leads Epic-level (projects) and initiatives from planning through delivery, coordinating contributions from multiple team members.
• Partners with Product Managers, Solution Leads, and Architects to establish Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates and work breakdown schedules (WBS) for project infrastructure components.
• Mentors and serves as an educational resource for junior members of the Digital team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and shared knowledge.

Technical Expertise

• Translates high-level conceptual designs into low-level technical execution and scalable frameworks.
• Demonstrates strong foundations in the full SDLC, including strict adherence to source control management (Git), code reviews, testing, and Day 2 cloud operations.

Communication and Presentation Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to create accurate, concise correspondence.
• Ability to develop and conduct presentations.

Security and Compliance

• Strong knowledge cyber security and mitigation techniques.
• Extensive experience in deploying Next Generation Web Applications Firewalls.
• Strong experience in working with Dynatrace for security event management, log analysis, and proactive threat detection.
• Hands-on mastery of Terraform for provisioning multi-region, cloud-native architecture.
• Advanced knowledge designing, configuring, and maintaining distributed architectures in cloud environments (GCP and/or Azure preferred).
• Strong proficiency with DNS, firewalls, routing, VPNs, LDAP/AD, NGWAF configuration, and CDN management (e.g., Akamai).
• Fluency in multiple scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go) with a strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows operating system internals (memory, disk, processes).
• Experience working with cloud-native monitoring environments and enterprise logging platforms like Splunk or Dynatrace.
• Azure Cloud and GCP services.

Experience and Certifications

• Required: 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, or Network Engineering, with a proven track record of operating in a high-visibility eCommerce or enterprise web traffic environment.
• Hands-on mastery of Terraform for provisioning multi-region, cloud-native architecture.
• Deep experience building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines within modern CI/CD frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge designing, configuring, and maintaining distributed architectures in cloud environments (GCP and/or Azure preferred).
• Strong proficiency with DNS, firewalls, routing, VPNs, LDAP/AD, NGWAF configuration, and CDN management (e.g., Akamai).
• Fluency in multiple scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Go) with a strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows operating system internals (memory, disk, processes).
• Experience working with cloud-native monitoring environments and enterprise logging platforms like Splunk or Dynatrace.
• Azure Cloud and GCP services.

Additional Requirements

• Recommended: Network Security management experience.
• Security vulnerability scanning.
• Application performance and fine tuning.
• Disaster recovery and high availability.

Tools and Technologies

• Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.