Infrastructure Engineer - IT Merchandising - On-Premise Systems (SRE)

About the role

The IT Merchandise Infrastructure Engineer at Costco Wholesale is responsible for monitoring, supporting, and maintaining the overall Costco Merchandising On-Premise application non-prod and production ecosystems. This role focuses on the health and operational functionality of these environments, ensuring governance, security, and compliance with Costco policies, operational standards, regulations, and industry frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Maintains and supports the non-prod and production ecosystems of the Costco Merchandising On-Premise application
• Ensures the governance, security, and compliance of the application platforms
• Collaborates with Architects to plan, design, implement, and improve new capabilities, enhancements, solutions, and/or platforms
• Drives governance through designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and documenting enterprise policies, standards, guidelines, monitoring services, solutions, configurations, and procedures
• Evaluates system specifications, input and output processes, and working parameters for hardware and software compatibility
• Performs shell and kernel-level programming and system-specific requirements
• Supports other areas of the department and company as necessary

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience with managing and patching Windows servers
• 3+ years’ experience with managing and patching Linux servers
• 3+ years’ experience supporting operations systems in a large enterprise environment
• Knowledge in server technologies, including server hardware, storage, backup solutions, data, and security
• Experience with Puppet configuration management
• Experience managing SQL/Oracle servers including backup and recovery
• Experience with Configuring and upgrading JBOSS servers
• Experience with DynaTrace and/or other monitoring tools
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Powershell, Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Understanding middleware technologies and messaging systems
• Ability to operate independently with a high-threshold for dealing with uncertainty, while simultaneously collaborating with various functional and technical teams
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills and the ability to logically think through problem situations and design solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to present complex ideas and designs to a variety of technical or non-technical stakeholders
• Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays and 24x7 on-call support for Production and Non-Prod environments and services

Qualifications

• Required 3+ years’ experience with managing and patching Windows servers
• Required 3+ years’ experience with managing and patching Linux servers
• Required 3+ years’ experience supporting operations systems in a large enterprise environment
• Knowledge in server technologies, including server hardware, storage, backup solutions, data, and security
• Experience with Puppet configuration management
• Experience managing SQL/Oracle servers including backup and recovery
• Experience with Configuring and upgrading JBOSS servers
• Experience with DynaTrace and/or other monitoring tools
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Powershell, Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Understanding middleware technologies and messaging systems
• Ability to operate independently with a high-threshold for dealing with uncertainty, while simultaneously collaborating with various functional and technical teams
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills and the ability to logically think through problem situations and design solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to present complex ideas and designs to a variety of technical or non-technical stakeholders
• Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays and 24x7 on-call support for Production and Non-Prod environments and services

Skills

• Scripting Languages: Powershell, Python, JavaScript
• Server Technologies: Server hardware, storage, backup solutions, data, and security
• Puppet Configuration Management
• SQL/Oracle Servers: Backup and Recovery
• JBOSS Servers
• Monitoring Tools: DynaTrace
• Middleware Technologies and Messaging Systems
• Shell and Kernel-Level Programming
• System-Specific Requirements

Benefits

Costco offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits, 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

Pay ranges from Level 1 - $85,000 - $110,000 to Level SR - $150,000 - $190,000, with bonus and restricted stock unit (RSU) eligibility.

Schedule

Costco offers a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of their employees.