Security Engineer - Penetration Testing- Cybersecurity

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.

Security Engineers develop, design, implement, and integrate security systems used to safeguard enterprise assets against cyber-attack. Security Engineers drive innovation, influence delivery, and maximize performance. They deliver high quality artifacts, develop and run security tests, and continuously tune security tools for optimization. Security Engineers identify gaps and inefficiencies and work with the business to implement solutions based on their requirements.

The role of each Information Security team member is to support the overarching values and business goals of Costco Wholesale, including meeting legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations; protecting member privacy; and maintaining a security technology environment for our operations. 

Penetration testers provide consultative services, working with internal business team members to conduct service engagements for security testing. Penetration testers perform reviews of system architecture documentation; create scopes of work for engagements, conduct security testing engagements on scoped assets, systems, processes, and/or employees; mentor team members.  

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

• Provides security and technical expertise to support the development of security objects to satisfy business requirements.

• Analyzes and administers security policies to control physical and virtual system access.

• Identifies and investigates security issues and develops security solutions that address compliance requirements that can/do impact security. 

• Identifies, develops, and implements mechanisms to detect security incidents in order to enhance compliance and support of the security standards and procedures.

• Assesses business role requirements, reviews authorization roles, and supports authorizations.

• Demonstrates a comprehensive skill set with testing authorizations for multiple environments and coordinates testing with business/technical users.

• Validates system configurations to ensure the safety of information systems assets and protects information systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.

• Implements best practice when applying knowledge of information systems security standards/practices (e.g.access control and system hardening, system audit and log file monitoring, security policies, and incident handling).

• Designs and coordinates activities/engagements with other departments (loss prevention, legal, networking, etc).

• Identifies security gaps that expose Costco to potential exploit and develop short- and long-term prioritized remediation to address those gaps.

• Develops and executes security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal/external data infiltrations.

• Determines strategy and protocol for network behavior, analysis techniques, a