DevOps Engineer - Costco Travel

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 Travel 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.

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.
 

Key responsibilities include deploying and managing software builds (maintenance and feature updates) of our custom
developed software, maintaining configurations, researching, developing, and implementing solutions to maintain and enhance
current systems, and providing 2nd and 3rd level support to other IT staff. The selected candidate is interested in improving the
development and testing team’s experience, is security-conscious, and detail oriented when designing deployment processes
and contributes to rolling out faster and better applications for Costco Travel members. Our vision is to continuously improve
build and configuration management tools and processes, as well as best practices to meet the needs of scaling applications
throughout our SDLC.
 

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

● Develops and operates end-to-end automated solutions for IT ops activities (including deployment, release management, monitoring, etc.).

● 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).
 

● 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 t