Infrastructure Engineer - Telecom

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.

Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for providing a reliable, flexible, scalable, secure, and efficient IT infrastructure to meet current and future organizational needs. They have deep knowledge and hands-on experience in enterprise-wide platforms, and solve technical problems while working on technology initiatives. Infrastructure Engineers have strong architectural, leadership, and technical skills. They ensure delivery of high-quality artifacts, define standards and configuration for the IT infrastructure, and ensure adherence to these standards. Infrastructure Engineers interact in a highly effective manner with other team members and management, drive innovation, and influence delivery and performance.

This role will focus on leading the design, architecture, implementation, and maintenance of Costco's complex telecommunications systems, including enterprise-wide voice and networks.

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

• Leads/Collaborates the technical evaluation of all hardware and infrastructure and makes recommendations, sources quotes, and the preparation of paperwork.

• Implements practices, processes, and procedures consistent with Costco's information security policy and IT standards Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes.

• Automates activities and tasks by leveraging API's.

• Automates deployment of applications and changes with CI/CD pipelines by leveraging DevOps skill sets.

• Builds infrastructure automation utilizing tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.

• Evaluates vendor hardware recommendations for operations reliability.

• Designs and implements solutions to meet business needs while developing and enforcing system and security standards.

• Builds prototypes of potential features.

• Creates conceptual and detailed technical design documents and standards.

• Enhances automation of systems and platforms and identifies opportunities for streamlining and continuous process improvement.

• Collaborates with Architects to plan, design, implement, and improve new capabilities, enhancements, solutions and/or platforms.

• Partners with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders to establish the rough order of magnitude estimates for infrastructure components of projects.

• Contributes, interprets, and communicates enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies to the team.

• Develops team vision to drive new capabilities against a published roadmap, in conjunction with management.

• Ensures that proposed and existing systems are aligned with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.

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

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