Platform Engineer - Enterprise Monitoring

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.

 Platform Engineers translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Solution Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives. Platform Engineers are well versed in modern data, infrastructure and integration platforms, industry/technology best practices and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.

The Enterprise Monitoring (EM) team Platform Engineer will be responsible for the design, deployment and management of robust and scalable Monitoring and Logging platforms for the Enterprise. This role involves the execution, maintenance and delivery of new features/capabilities across multiple monitoring and observability solutions, to ensure end-to-end visibility into the health, performance and availability of applications and platforms. We are looking for a highly motivated, technically savvy, business focused Platform Engineer who has the skills to work in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment and is willing to adapt to multiple strategic priorities to deliver high quality deliverables.

*This position will be filled onsite in Issaquah, WA or Dallas, TX.

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

 ●      Designs, implements and maintains monitoring platforms across multi-cloud (Azure, GCP etc) and on-prem environments.

●      Manages and optimizes observability solutions (such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry etc) for end-to-end systems visibility.

●      Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and executes updates based on SLAs.

●      Integrates logging solutions and ensures proper ingestion, parsing and indexing of logs across platforms.

●      Administers Enterprise Monitoring tools such as SCOM, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, HP Operations Agent, Network Node Manager (NNMi) and Dynatrace to ensure continuous availability and performance.

●      Develops automation scripts (e.g: Powershell, Python etc) to streamline alerting, onboarding and configuration tasks.