Firm Name: Costco

Numbers of Jobs: Cloud Engineer

Education Need: Graduate

Job Hours: 8

Payment: $20-$30/Hours

What's Job City: Seattle

Job Details:

Because this workplace is unlike any other in the high-tech world, Costco's culture is the secret to its success. The value that Costco places on its employees is well-documented in articles from a variety of publishers, including Bloomberg and Forbes. Priority one belongs to our members and staff. Costco is well known for its generosity and dedication to the community as a result of its philanthropy. In order to motivate its staff to actively engage in volunteerism, the company supports a variety of charitable giving opportunities. In 2021, Costco donated more than $58 million to organizations like the United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

 Costco IT, the third-largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in 14 nations, is in charge of guiding Costco Wholesale's technological development. Despite our size and quick international expansion, we still strive to create a friendly workplace where employees can thrive. Look no further than Costco's ranking of seventh on Forbes' list of the world's best employers for proof.

 This position serves as a subject matter expert and Microsoft Azure cloud engineer. While interacting directly with managers, architects, engineers, and developers, the position offers workable technical cloud solutions. For the position, you must have technical hands-on design and implementation experience with infrastructure solutions in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. Additionally, the role will work to make sure that the engineered solutions in Microsoft Azure are in line with the requirements of the customer's architecture and compatible (where possible) with other public, private, or hybrid cloud solutions. As a member of a highly skilled, agile development and cloud team supporting significant cloud programs, this position will contribute real-world engineering and solution experience for Microsoft Azure.

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 ROLE.

•  assembles working prototypes of potential features.
•  improves application, system, and platform automation, finds areas for streamlining, and continuously improves processes.
•  applying knowledge to practical, long-term uses and abilities.
•  Contributes to, interprets, and communicates the team's enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies.
•  Plans and coordinates tasks that link short-term goals with long-term goals, while providing accurate and timely estimates of work breakdown schedules.
•  encourages and promotes the division's adoption of strict standards and best practices.
•  combines different solution components from different platforms using industry-standard interfaces.
•  tests and fixes problems, identifies gaps, performs root cause analysis, offers fixes and preventative measures, and directs team members in the development of solution delivery plans.
•  carries out proof-of-concept tests and makes use of diagnostic/debugging tools to address current problems in multi-platform systems.
•  Reviews of the plans are made for system additions or upgrades.
•  Through technical leadership, an understanding of business needs, the creation and dissemination of policies, procedures, and plans, and the assurance that solution designs adhere to architecture standards, technological restraints, security standards, and operational guidelines, encourages and supports the development of a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization.
•  by providing highly technical direction, improves team effectiveness and performance.
•  takes on technical leadership duties for database query languages, strategic planning meetings, documentation requirements, tool implementation, and application implementation.
•  supports industry-standard source control and source change management practices by utilizing subject-matter expertise.
•  Present technical plans and solutions to executives, management, and other audiences in order to secure agreement and/or project approval.
•  demonstrates technical leadership in the creation of cloud applications using cloud technologies (PaaS, IaaS), database query languages, and web programming languages.
•  demonstrates technical leadership in the use of cloud solutions to address complex issues.
•  Design, implement, and manage environments for secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure in close collaboration with cloud infrastructure teams, architects, Dev/QA, and engineers.
•  One suggests using automation and cloud infrastructure to boost productivity.
•  oversees the management of resources like Azure Load Balancers, VNets, Subnets, Resource Groups, and Network Security Groups and develops monitoring policies.
•  Advisory support is given to internal staff as they work to solve a variety of challenging, technical problems.
•  manages and keeps an eye on load balancers, VNets, subnets, and Azure Resource Groups.
•  handles platform-related issues and supports operating system patching in the Azure DevOps environment.
•  creates, documents, and implements the DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
•  Using cloud resources (snoozing/shutting down) for cost optimization can boost financial efficiency.
•  Monitoring, alerting, logging, and analytics are carried out using the proper Azure native tools.
•  observes the Network, Compute, and Storage tools, as well as the outside services that Costco provides.
•  creates, manages, and keeps up an operations runbook that contains best practices, configurations, lessons learned, root cause analyses, diagnostic techniques, and solutions to stop further incidents.
•  supports, manages, and coordinates backup and restoration processes for Azure.
•  the baseline for Azure operational services is kept.
•  Interact with business clients to clarify the system's objectives and scope.
•  develops specifications, writes code, runs tests, and documents while modeling and configuring data.
•  carries out cloud capacity planning and makes use of recommended security procedures for cloud applications.
•  gives recommendations on how to run proof-of-concept experiments and how to use Azure services to solve current issues the most effectively.
•  examines the outcome and application of additions and/or enhancements to cloud systems and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.
•  makes documentation for cloud systems, whether they are new or existing.
•  Maintains up-to-date knowledge of relevant technology as assigned (i. e. Using Microsoft Azure.
•  participates in special projects as required.
•  collaborates closely with PMO to specify the parameters of the upcoming iteration and to offer implementation assistance.
•  identifies automation tools for build and release pipelines to boost the effectiveness and dependability of the release process.
•  keeps version control in order to track code evolution and improve code traceability.
•  after release, facilitates retrospectives.

 REQUIRED.

•  3 to 5 years of operational task automation scripting experience.
•  having the ability to mentor and manage multiple team members on various projects at once.
•  understanding of cloud computing principles.
•  the technologies of cloud computing are admired.

 Recommended.

•  preferred certification for Microsoft Azure.
•  use of the Azure console and portal with ease.
•  knowledge of PowerShell, Puppet, XML, SOAP, and REST.
•  three or more years of experience putting enterprise cloud technologies into practice.
•  5+ years of experience working with business software systems.

 Paperwork that is required.

•  Note of Cover.
•  The resume.

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