Security Engineer - Security Engineering - Data Security

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. As proof, Costco ranks eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

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 Security Engineering 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 member’s and employee’s privacy; and maintaining a security technology environment for our operations.

This Engineer position will be a key member of the Security Engineering - Data Security team that will design, develop, and deploy tools, services, programs, and projects involving DLP 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; maintain operational excellence for their tools, services, and programs; create and maintain documentation related to policies, standards and procedures; and lead and mentor team members with lesser subject matter expertise.  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

●      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.

●      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, and tool implementation.

●      Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates optio