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”.

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.

The Platform Engineer will have in-depth knowledge of AIX and POWER systems. This role specifically supports the ACE (IIB) and MQ applications. The Platform Engineer will regularly support maintenance of both the application and underlying OS and hardware. The Platform Engineer is well versed in modern infrastructure and/or cloud based platforms, industry/technology best practices and actively works on improving the reliability and scalability of the platforms managed .

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.

Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and execute updates based on SLA’s.

Manages the platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring, patching and support.

Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.

Conducts regular platform check-ups and report inefficiencies to relevant business and technology stakeholders.

Interfaces with infrastructure and/or provisioning groups to stand up the platform.

Develops and instruments monitoring dashboards depicting platform health and performance.

Develops and builds scalable and generalized frameworks to support the integration of third-party API’s.

Performs analysis on existing platform components to identify improvements software development processes.

Develops and implements Platform as a Service (PaaS) Solutions.

Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

Supports the creation of documentation and artifacts used to describe the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring and maintenance.

Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

Collaborates with Architects and technology team members to define development tasks and activities within technical user stories to support the implementation of Infrastructure as a code solution.

Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to ensure its reliability.

Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering with technology vendors.

Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products and services.

Tests diagnostics including automated regression testing.

Supports the development and execution of integration testing plans as needed.

Supports the authoring and execution of test cases related to support the implementation of platform development work.

Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with the Architects.

Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure and compliant with company standards and practices as well as regulatory requirements.

Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.

Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

Evaluates and documents all operating systems according to required standards.

Participates in DevOps, Agile, and continuous integration frameworks.

REQUIRED

3+ years’ Unix administration experience.

1+ years’ ACE and MQ experience.

Recommended

Familiar with Agile methodologies.

iSeries experience.

Shell scripting experience.

Certificate management experience.

Required Documents

Cover Letter

Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $115,000 - $150,000

Level 3 - $140,000 - $175,000

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. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.