Firm Name: Costco

Numbers of Jobs: Cloud Networking Engineer

Education Need: Graduate

Job Hours: 8

Payment: $20-$30/Hours

What's Job City: Dallas 

Job Details:

• Costco IT is in charge of the technological future of Costco Wholesale. Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in 14 nations. Despite our size and quick international growth, we still strive to create a supportive environment where employees can flourish. Look no further than Costco's ranking of seventh on Forbes' list of the world's best employers for confirmation.
•  Because this workplace is unlike any other in the high-tech world, Costco's culture is the secret to its success. Numerous publications, such as Bloomberg and Forbes, have written articles that go into great detail about the value that Costco places on its employees. Our members and employees come first. Costco is well known for its generosity and dedication to the community, and it has won many awards for these qualities. The company supports a variety of charitable giving opportunities to motivate its employees to actively volunteer.
•  Join the Costco Wholesale IT community now. Costco IT is undergoing exciting transformational projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We are developing the next-generation retail environment, where you will be surrounded by devoted and highly skilled workers.
•  Engineers use their in-depth understanding and practical experience of enterprise-wide platforms to work on technology initiatives and resolve technical problems. Engineers are adept at technology, leadership, and architecture. They follow the SDLC outlined by Costco and guarantee that high-quality artifacts are delivered. Engineers have a significant impact on delivery, performance, and collaboration with management and other team members.
•  A cloud network engineer's responsibilities include designing and implementing cloud network configurations. You will employ infrastructure as best practices in your code to promote modifications in both development and production environments. You will be responsible for continuously developing technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment, making use of many of the most recent technologies and industry best practices, and coming up with better and more efficient ways to deliver solutions that meet business objectives.
•  If you want to be a part of one of the world's BEST companies "to work for," all you have to do is apply and let your career be reimagined. ".

 ROLE.

•  Automating, capturing, sharing, educating, and assigning tasks can all help to improve processes.
•  builds hypothetical models of features.
•  produces conceptually sound and comprehensive technical design standards and documents.
•  enhances platform, system, and application automation while identifying opportunities for streamlining and ongoing process improvement.
•  collaborates with architects to create, plan, execute, and improve new features, upgrades, solutions, and/or platforms.
•  uses knowledge to create practical and long-lasting capabilities and applications.
•  develops and maintains a strong framework to support applications and to deliver high-quality solutions in collaboration with project managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders. establishes rough estimates of order of magnitude.
•  Contributes to, interprets, and communicates the team's enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies.
•  develops a team vision in collaboration with management to direct the creation of new capabilities in accordance with a roadmap that has been made public.
•  determines whether proposed and current systems are in compliance with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.
•  provides accurate and timely estimates of work breakdown schedules while developing and managing projects that balance short-term goals with long-term initiatives.
•  collaborates with teams, management, and stakeholders on product conception, design, development, testing, and release.
•  sharing relevant information with teams.
•  encourages and promotes the division's adoption of best practices and rigorous quality standards.
•  integrates a variety of solution components across multiple platforms using industry standard interfaces.
•  identifies gaps, performs root cause analysis, suggests fixes and preventative measures, and assists team members in developing plans for delivering solutions. It also tests and fixes problems.
•  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.
•  By exercising technical leadership, being aware of business requirements, developing and disseminating policies, procedures, and plans, and ensuring that solution designs adhere to architecture standards, technological constraints, security standards, and operational guidelines, one can promote and support a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization.
•  makes leadership and mentoring available to team members, implements development efficiencies, and generates appropriate. supports the release model, encourages team technical development, and enhances operational efficiency.
•  provides highly technical direction to improve team performance and effectiveness.
•  provides technical leadership in the creation of applications, in meetings for strategic planning, in the documentation of requirements, in the use of tools, in programming languages, and in database query languages.
•  utilizing subject-matter expertise, supports industry standard source control and source change management procedures.
•  presents technical data to management, executives, and other audiences in an effort to gain support for the project or approval.
•  designs, plans, and implements cloud network configurations with a focus on scalability and reliability.
•  creates and keeps up Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
•  creates and applies stopgap fixes for networks in the cloud and on-premises.
•  produces and updates technical documentation.
•  Creates tool integrations that permit application development to be fully traceable, from requirements to code objects modified to satisfy those requirements.
•  creates solutions in collaboration with operations, development, and other groups that are geared toward scalability and easier maintenance.
•  Configures and maintains on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure using automated scripts and configuration management tools in order to ensure the performance, scalability, availability, and security of development, testing, and production environments.
•  creates, develops, and expands automated CI and CD pipelines.
•  utilizes industry-standard tools to enhance and speed up the delivery of our products and services.
•  carries out quick fixes or proactively notices and resolves build-related issues in production environments to provide prompt and considerate issue resolution.
•  establishes and maintains environments by coordinating resources from various technology functions.
•  in close coordination with the product and application teams, develops a branching strategy for version control.
•  Network engineers collaborate across value streams to share information and advance best practices.

 REQUIRED.

•  5+ years of experience in the IT industry.
•  Azure is preferred; prior management and provisioning experience with cloud services is required.
•  Networking knowledge for Azure and on-premises environments.
•  demonstrates proficiency with Azure Network resources, including virtual networks, public and private IP addresses, peering between virtual networks, routing, firewalls, and Azure Virtual NAT.
•  familiarity with Azure CDN, Front Door, and Load Balancer resources.
•  understanding of on-premises and cloud-based DNS solutions (Azure DNS, Domain Controller).
•  the ability to develop network solutions that can accommodate many different use cases.
•  demonstrates understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
•  working familiarity with writing infrastructure-as-code CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
•  understanding of the development and coding processes.
•  excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to solve issues logically.
•  • Extensive familiarity with application architecture, network technologies, application security, and infrastructure architecture.
•  High moral standards, accountability for your actions, a positive outlook, and a willingness to go above and beyond are all qualities that will help the team succeed.
•  Team player with excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. imaginative and enjoys challenges.
•  capable of supporting after-hours work as required, including switching between weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on-call responsibilities.

 Recommended.

•  having at least an AZ-900 and AZ-700 in Microsoft Certification or having experience in the field.
•  exposure to CI/CD and IaC tools used in the workplace (including Terraform and Azure DevOps).
•  Implementing enterprise cloud technologies for at least three years.
•  five years or more of expertise with business infrastructure and software.
•  a working knowledge of Kanban and Scrum agile methodologies.

 Required Documents.

•  a letter of cover.
•  The curriculum vitae.

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•  $165,000 to $195,00 pay range; bonus and restricted stock unit (RSU) eligibility.