Firm Name:  Costco

Numbers of Jobs: Cloud Engineer

Education Need: Graduate

Job Hours: 8

Payment: $20-$30/Hour

What's Job City: Houston

Job Details:

Since this environment is unique in the high-tech world, Costco's culture is the secret to its success. Numerous publications, including Bloomberg and Forbes, have published articles that provide in-depth documentation of the value that Costco places on its employees. Priority is given to our members and staff. Because of its philanthropy, Costco is well known for its generosity and dedication to the community. The company encourages its employees to volunteer actively by sponsoring numerous opportunities for charitable giving. More than $58 million was donated by Costco to organizations like the United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in 2021.

 Costco IT, the third-largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries, is in charge of ensuring the technical viability of the business. We continue to foster a family-oriented environment where employees can thrive despite our size and quick international growth. Look no further than Costco's ranking of seventh on Forbes' list of the world's best employers for proof.

 These duties are performed in the position of cloud engineer (Microsoft Azure) and subject matter expert. The position works closely with managers, architects, engineers, and developers to provide real-world technical cloud solutions. The position calls for practical experience with the technical design and implementation of infrastructure solutions within the Microsoft Azure cloud environment. Additionally, the role will work to ensure that the engineered solutions in Microsoft Azure are consistent and compatible (where possible) with other public, private, or hybrid cloud solutions as well as with the specifications for the customer's architecture. As a member of a highly competent, agile development and cloud team supporting significant cloud programs, this position will contribute to real-world engineering and solution experience for Microsoft Azure.

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 ROLE.

•  builds hypothetical models of features.
•  enhances platform, system, and application automation while identifying opportunities for process streamlining and ongoing improvement.
•  uses knowledge to create practical and long-lasting capabilities and applications.
•  Contributes to the team's enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies and relays them to the team.
•  develops and manages activities that coordinate short- and long-term goals, while providing accurate and timely estimates of work breakdown schedules.
•  encourages and influences the division to adopt high standards for quality and best practices.
•  combines various 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.
•  runs proof-of-concept tests and applies diagnostic/debugging know-how to current multi-platform system issues.
•  Prepare system evaluations for upgrades and/or additions.
•  Promotes and supports a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization by exercising technical leadership, comprehending business needs, developing and communicating policies, procedures, and plans, and ensuring that solution designs are compliant with architecture standards, technology guardrails, security, and operational guidelines.
•  through highly technical guidance, improves team effectiveness and performance.
•  provides technical leadership for applications execution, meetings for strategic planning, documentation requirements, tool implementation, and programming language and database query implementation.
•  Supports industry-standard source control and source change management strategies using subject-matter expertise.
•  Present technical designs and solutions to executives, management, and other audiences to win their support and/or get the project approved.
•  demonstrates technical leadership in the creation of cloud applications using cloud technologies (PaaS, IaaS), web programming languages, and database query languages.
•  Technical leader with a focus on using cloud solutions to tackle challenging issues.
•  Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure environments in close collaboration with cloud infrastructure teams, architects, developers, quality assurance engineers, and engineers.
•  proposes and implements cloud infrastructure and automation to boost efficiency.
•  manages the administration of resources like Azure Load Balancers, VNets, Subnets, Resource Groups, and Network Security Groups and develops monitoring policies to guide them.
•  provides internal staff with consultative support while resolving extremely technical and complex issues on a variety of projects.
•  oversees and manages load balancers, VNet, subnets, and Azure Resource Groups, as well as Network Security Groups.
•  supports operating system patching in the Azure DevOps environment and manages platform-related issues.
•  creates, configures, and documents the DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
•  Increasing financial effectiveness through cost optimization using cloud resources (sleeping/shutting down).
•  Using the appropriate Azure native tools, conduct analytics, alerting, logging, and monitoring.
•  monitors the tools, services, and resources that Costco offers to outside parties in the areas of network, computing, and storage.
•  Creates, maintains, and updates an operations runbook that contains standard operating procedures, configurations, lessons learned, root cause analyses, diagnostic techniques, and solutions to stop incidents from happening again.
•  supports manages and coordinates backup and restoration processes for Azure.
•  lays the foundation for Azure's operational services.
•  interacts with business clients to specify the system's parameters and objectives.
•  models and configures data, and develops specifications, codes, tests, and documentation.
•  carries out cloud capacity planning and makes use of recommended security procedures for cloud-based applications.
•  provides advice on how to conduct proof-of-concept experiments and offers suggestions on how to use Azure services to address current issues.
•  reviewing new cloud system features and/or improvements, then recommending them to management or clients.
•  creates documentation for new or old cloud computing systems.
•  Keeps up-to-date on relevant technology as assigned (i. e. Azure by Microsoft.
•  Participates in special projects as required.
•  collaborates closely with PMO to specify the parameters of the upcoming iteration and to offer implementation support.
•  identifies tools for automation that can be used to streamline the build and release pipelines and increase the reliability and efficiency of the release process.
•  provides version control, enhancing the dependability and traceability of the code to monitor code evolution.
•  promotes introspection after release.

 REQUIRED.

•  3-4 years of scripting to automate administrative tasks.
•  the ability to supervise and mentor a large team while working on several projects at once.
•  understanding of cloud-based techniques.
•  commitment to cloud computing.

 Recommended.

•  It is preferable to be certified for Microsoft Azure.
•  • Expertise with the Azure console and portal.
•  knowledge of XML, SOAP, REST, PowerShell, and Puppet.
•  a minimum of three years of expertise in implementing enterprise cloud technologies.
•  4+ years of experience using business software.

 Required Documents.

•  Expression of interest.
•  Curriculum vitae.