Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK

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. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers” Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.

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 Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.

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 Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.

DevOps Engineers automate software builds, test and deployment systems, and infrastructure as code.  DevOps Engineers manage various development, test, staging, and demo environments (code deployment using Continuous Improvement (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines, backups, data refreshes), as well as deploy and manage software into Costco’s production environment while leveraging as much automation as possible. They are responsible for continually advancing the technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment using many of the latest technologies and industry best practices and finding better and more efficient ways of delivering solutions that meet business objectives Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.

The Cloud Infrastructure Product Team is creating a self-service platform that deploys cloud infrastructure for customers. This will increase speed to market in helping value streams deliver solutions to the business through standardized offerings. The Software Developer performs the tasks necessary to analyze, design, configure, implement and support Costco’s Service Catalog, related services, processes, applications, and integrations. This will involve working closely with IT functional areas, process owners and suppliers to develop detailed design, execution, and troubleshooting of strategic solutions in support of these systems. This position includes involvement with resolving application and configuration issues/concerns, providing ongoing analysis of performance, implementation of approved changes, and ensuring continual service improvements through automation and orchestration best practices Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.

ROLE

• Develops and operates end-to-end automated solutions for IT ops activities (including deployment, release management, monitoring, etc.) Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.
• 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) Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.
• Maintains, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
• Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or standalone releases across multiple interconnected and disperse 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 Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.
• 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 Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.
• 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 conflict s Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK.
• Develops tool integrations that allow for end to end traceability for application development (from requirements to code objects changed to meet the requirements).
• Develops secure, self-service, automated offerings for Value Stream and Shared Services teams.
• Works on diagrams and documents orchestration system solutions, configurations, break/fix procedures.Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Troubleshoots and solve code level problems quickly and efficiently.
• Follows established coding standards.
• Creates automated unit and integration tests. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Provides specific, relevant reporting to process stakeholders in support of root cause analysis, risk and event mitigation and elimination, and automation.
• Develops a strong understanding of Costco and/or industry Information Security policies and practices. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Mentors and provides training to Cloud IPT staff and other IT functional and support personnel. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK

REQUIRED

• 5+ years’ software development experience.
• Experience with SDLC in an Agile environment.
• Knowledge of API development and usage: .NET, and .NET Core, GraphQL.
• Experience with the following development best practices: Back end for Front End (BFF), Contract driven development, OAuth, CI/CD.
• Demonstrated ability to code in one of the following languages:  Javascript, TypeScript, C#, Java, or Go.
• Experience using Git. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Proven ability to design, maintain, and continually improvement enterprise level solutions.
• Experience in PowerShell or Shell scripting. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas and designs to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7.

Recommended

• Certifications in RedHat Linux, SUSE, Windows, Puppet, Terraform, or Azure. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Experience in one or more of the following deployment tools: Terraform, Docker, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow Orchestration, Jenkins.
• Experience in one or more of the following configuration management tools: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Knowledge of the following frameworks: Express, Cypress Test Suite, Nx.
• Experiences using Azure Functions and MongoDB.
• Understanding of security and vulnerability best practice and design implications. Costco Career Opportunities Technology UK
• Understanding of cloud design implications and experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.