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.

Costco Wholesale is looking for a Storage Engineer, who wants the opportunity to design and implement highly-scalable storage solutions within a large enterprise environment and drive Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) initiatives. The Storage Engineer is responsible for the design, technical administration, support and maintenance of an enterprise Storage Area Network infrastructure. The Storage Engineer will be involved in strategic planning and implementation, capacity planning, daily monitoring and tracking, auditing, consultation with other departments to resolve issues and concerns, and analyzing and recommending system changes. They will install, configure, upgrade, and support SAN and NAS environments. The primary responsibility for this position will be SAN engineering.

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

Builds prototypes of potential features.

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

Shares relevant information among teams.

Runs proof of concepts and uses diagnostic/debugging skills to solve current challenges in multi-platform systems

Provides leadership/mentoring to team members, implements development efficiencies, creates appropriate documentation, drives operational efficiencies, and technical growth within the team and supports the release model.

Provides technical leadership in the implementation of applications, strategic planning sessions, documentation of requirements, tool implementation, database query languages, and programming languages.

Uses subject matter expertise to support industry standard source control and source change management techniques.

Designs storage solutions based on best practices for scale up and out.

Works with vendors to understand the applications, strategies, and roadmaps for current, updated, and emerging technologies.

Drives automation initiatives for storage creation, configuration, and provisioning.

Develops business cases to justify strategic investment in systems architecture, including analysis of future growth and cost reduction opportunities.

Provides technical engineering and design reviews for new storage platforms, applications, infrastructure, and hardware.

Identifies and reports Key Performance Indicators, focusing on capacity planning, and performance analysis.

Provision, maintain, and provide Storage Area Network support in a heterogeneous platform environment (Windows, Linux, VMware, AIX, i5/OS)

Manages the environment for storage allocation, data replication, monitoring, performance and capacity analysis.

Provides support for troubleshooting and problem resolution related to storage devices and host connectivity.

Tests and implements new tools to better manage storage infrastructure.

Documents storage administration processes/procedures to ensure optimal levels of support.

Researches, analyzes, and recommends changes required for system growth by utilizing industry standard monitoring and research tools.

Implements policies, procedures, and technologies and follows established security standards.

Cross-functional collaboration to ensure availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate storage to meet business demands.

REQUIRED

Experience with SAN/NAS administration that includes provisioning, administering, and tuning SAN environments for a large enterprise environment.

Experience with data migration and replication.

Experience automating existing processes with scripting in PowerShell and Unix shell.

Experience with Enterprise NAS such as VNX, Unity, and NetApp.

Current hands-on experience with hardware and software troubleshooting.

Experience working with Fibre Channel SAN, CIFS, and NFS based storage arrays.

Experience implementing hybrid-cloud storage solutions within an enterprise environment.

Comfortable making scripted changes across a large enterprise environment.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a customer-service focus.

Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Strong technical documentation and writing skills.

Provides 24x7x365 on-call support, weekends and/or holidays, as necessary.

Recommended

EMC and/or NetApp Proven Professional preferred.

Experience with Cisco SAN.

Experience with EMC Symmetrix VMAX platform, IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX storage virtualization.

Experience configuring and managing PowerPath, Unisphere, and SRDF.

Experience with enterprise-level server virtualization technologies such as VMware.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter

• Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $145,000 - $175,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Level 3 - $165,000 - $195,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

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.