DevOps Engineer - Build Engineer - Costco Travel

Costco • Issaquah, WA

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About The Position

Costco Travel 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 Travel 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.
DevOps Engineers automate software builds, test and deployment systems, and infrastructure as code. DevOps Engineers manage various development, test, staging, and demo environments (code deployment using Continuous Improvement (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines, backups, data refreshes), as well as deploy and manage software into Costco’s production environment while leveraging as much automation as possible. They are responsible for continually advancing the technology in a collaborative and creative agile environment using many of the latest technologies and industry best practices and finding better and more efficient ways of delivering solutions that meet business objectives.

As a Build Engineer you work with Software Developers and DevOps Teams to ensure our products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. This requires scripting and coding with an eye toward scalability as we are pushing updates and iterating on all of our products.

The Build Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our build and release infrastructure. This role is critical to ensuring efficient, reliable, and automated software builds across multiple platforms and environments. Our vision is to continuously improve build and configuration management tools as well as best practices to meet needs of scaling applications as well as growing engineering teams.
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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in build engineering, DevOps, or related role.
• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Proven track record of implementing and maintaining automated build systems.
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Groovy).
• Strong understanding of build tools (Gradle, Maven, etc.).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Nice To Haves

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Ability to debug complex build and deployment issues.
• Understanding of networking, security, and system administration concepts.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, creates and applies software development and security standards and practices.
• Plans, designs, and documents software components.
• Develops and operates end-to-end automated solutions for IT ops activities (including deployment, release management, monitoring, etc.)
• Collaborates with Operations, Development, and QA functions to develop solutions that are predisposed to scalability and simplified maintenance.
• Configures and maintains on-premises and Azure cloud infrastructure to ensure availability, performance, scalability and security of development, testing and production environments, relying on automated scripts and configuration management tools.
• Creates, and manages Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Maintains, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
• Demonstrates expertise in the deployment of integrated or stand-alone releases across multiple interconnected and disperse applications.
• Uses industry standard tools to improve and speed up delivery of our products and services.
• Provides fast and thoughtful issue resolution by executing quick fixes or proactively identifying and solving problems related to builds in production environments.
• Creates the pipeline to periodically generate code quality metrics.
• Drives each team to be self-sufficient by providing tools and training and brings different teams together to work towards common goals.
• Coordinates resources across technology functions to stand up and monitor environments.
• Configures and automates development and test environment, deployment, automation and support test data management.
• Establishes workflows that use the automated pipelines for CI and CD.
• Works closely with product and application teams to create version control branching strategy.
• Works cross-value streams with other DevOps Engineers to avoid and resolve merge conflicts.
• Develops tool integrations that allow for end to end traceability for application development (from requirements to code objects changed to meet the requirements).
• Designs and develops solutions to improve developer experience and code velocity to production.
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated build systems and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Optimizes build processes to reduce build times and improve efficiency.
• Monitors build systems and proactively resolve issues to minimize downtime.
• Implements and maintains build configurations across multiple platforms (Windows, Linux).
• Creates and maintains build scripts, tools, and automation frameworks.
• Automates repetitive tasks to improve team productivity.
• Integrates third-party tools and services into the build pipeline.
• Maintains version control strategies and branching models.
• Provides technical support and troubleshooting for build-related issues.
• Documents build processes, procedures, and best practices.
• Monitors and optimizes build performance metrics.
• Implements security best practices in build and deployment processes.
• Manages build artifacts, dependencies, and package repositories.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed