Security Engineer - Cybersecurity Operations - Tools and Optimization

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 every Cybersecurity Operations team member is to support the overarching values and business goals of Costco Wholesale as they relate to meeting legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations; protecting members’ and employees’ privacy; and maintaining a security technology environment for our operations.

This Cybersecurity Operations Engineer position will be a key member of the Cybersecurity Operations - Tools and Optimization team that will design, develop, and deploy tools, services, programs, and projects involving platform security technologies. Additionally, they will work with management and vendors for product consideration; perform auditing of information system activities; as a Subject Matter Expert, provide consultative services; drive innovation in technology, process, and procedure; and maintain operational excellence for their tools, services, and programs; create and maintain documentation related to policies, standards, and procedures. This will involve working with many groups throughout IT both domestically and internationally.

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

●      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.

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

●      Takes assessment of existing Cybersecurity Infrastructure platforms and tools.

●      Creates the roadmap for addressing capability gaps, maturity improvements, and innovation.

●      Evaluates and hardens tooling and instrumentation to prevent cybersecurity exploits.

●      Performs and/or coordinates regular security assessments of existing or new infrastructure.

●      Performs duties necessary to assist in establishing practices and system configurations to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect information systems from intentional