Costco IT is responsible for the Costco IT is responsible for the Costco IT is responsible for the Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for providing a reliable, flexible, scalable, secure and efficient IT infrastructure to meet current and future organizational needs. They have deep knowledge and hands-on experience in enterprise-wide platforms, and solve technical problems while working on technology initiatives. Infrastructure Engineers have strong architectural, leadership, and technical skills. They ensure delivery of high quality artifacts, define standards and configuration for the IT infrastructure and ensure adherence to these standards. Infrastructure Engineers interact in a highly effective manner with other team members and management, drive innovation, and influence delivery and performance.

An Infrastructure Engineer for x86 Compute and Virtualization is responsible for providing a reliable, flexible, scalable, secure and efficient IT infrastructure to meet current and future organizational needs. They have deep knowledge and hands-on experience in enterprise-wide platforms, and solve technical problems while working on technology initiatives.

The x86 Compute and Virtualization team is responsible for the day-to-day, 24x7 operational support of the VMWare virtualization infrastructure and x86 hardware. Our scope includes operational support for warehouse virtualized and physical server environments, data centers, with a focus on operating system integrity, security, and performance. The key duties for this role involve team tasks management associated with virtualization administration, performing system maintenance, and support of the VMWare environments throughout the enterprise. The overall goal is to provide exceptional uptime, reliability, security, and system performance improvements

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ROLE

● Leads/Collaborates the technical evaluation of all hardware and infrastructure and makes recommendations, sources quotes, and the preparation of paperwork.

● Implements practices, processes, and procedures consistent with Costco's information security policy and IT standards

● Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes.

● Automates activities and tasks by leveraging API’s for deployment of applications and changes with CI/CD pipelines by leveraging DevOps skill sets.

● Builds infrastructure automation utilizing tools such as Ansible, TerraForm, Intersight, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.

● Evaluates vendor hardware (HPE, Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge) recommendations for operations reliability.

● Designs and implements solutions to meet business needs while developing and enforcing system and security standards.

● Builds prototypes of potential features.

● Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents and standards.

● Enhances automation of systems and platforms and identifies opportunities for streamlining and continuous process improvement.

● Collaborates with architects to plan, design, implement, and improve new capabilities, enhancements, solutions and/or platforms.

● Partners with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders to establish the rough order of magnitude estimates for infrastructure components of projects.

● Contributes, interprets, and communicates enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies to the team.

● Develops team vision to drive new capabilities against a published roadmap, in conjunction with management.

● Ensures that proposed and existing systems are aligned with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.

● Formulates and directs activities that align short term goals and long term initiatives while providing accurate and timely estimates (work breakdown schedules).

● Works with teams, management, and stakeholders to conceptualize, design, build, test, and release products.

● Analyzes user and project requirements for solutions.

● Identifies and resolves incidents, often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options and implements solutions in accordance with incident and problem management services, participates in on-call support rotations, policies, procedures and SLA’s.

REQUIRED

● Minimum 5 years’ of experience in engineering discipline with managing virtualization environments at enterprise scale.

● Proven knowledge and technical experience with VMWare software and technologies in an enterprise environment.

● Demonstrated expertise automation routine tasks using TerraForm, Python, PowerShell with Azure Automation and RunBooks, including usage of CI/CD pipelines.

● Experience in benchmarking, analyzing, and recommending improvements of customer IT infrastructure.

● Experience in enterprise level virtualization infrastructure, including VMWare, SAN and vSAN models, fiber channel/iSCSI, clustering, and high availability.

● Experience to continuously monitor, optimize, and improve the services of an enterprise virtualization infrastructure.

● Strong understanding of TCP/IP network architecture and implementation.

● Extremely responsive and able to work under pressure in stressful situations with a strong sense of urgency.

● Strong critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills, with attention to details.

● Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and 24x7 on call rotation.

We offer a 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.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an 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. 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.

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