Platform Engineer - Enterprise Content Management

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.

Platform Engineers translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Solution Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives.

The ECM Platform Engineer will be responsible for leading the execution of modernization of the Enterprise Content Management suite of products. The ECM Platform Engineer is well versed in modern infrastructure platforms and actively works on implementing code which improves the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.

We are looking for a highly motivated, business focused platform engineer who wants to work in a highly collaborative environment and is willing to be the player as well as coach for the System Administration team.

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

● Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and executes updates based on SLAs.

● Manages the platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring, patching, and support.

● Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.

● Conducts regular platform checkups and reports inefficiencies to relevant business and technology stakeholders.

● Collaborates with infrastructure and/or provisioning groups to stand up the platform.

● Develops and instruments monitoring dashboards depicting platform health and performance.

● Develops and builds scalable and generalized frameworks to support the integration of internal and third-party APIs.

● Performs analysis on existing platform components to identify improvements to software development processes.

● Develops and implements Platform as a Service (PaaS) Solutions.

● Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

● Participates in the creation of documentation and artifacts used to describe the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.

● Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to ensure its reliability.

● Plans and Implements arrangements for Disaster Recovery and conducts related testing of recovery procedures.

● Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering with technology vendors.

● Conducts research and makes recommendations on standards, products, and services.

● Tests diagnostics (including) automated regression testing.

● Develops and executes integration testing plans (as needed).

● Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices as well as regulatory requirements.

● Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.

● Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

● Evaluates and documents all operating systems according to required standards.

● Participates in the development of continuous integration/continuous development frameworks in support of DevOps and Agile practices.

● Collaborates with delivery pods, system administrators, and Solution Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.

● Leads the management of the platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring and support.

● Evaluates, develops, and implements deployment models as needed.

● Collaborates with Solution Architect and technology team members to define development tasks and activities within technical user stories to support the implementation of Infrastructure as a code solution.

● Supports the development and execution of integration testing plans (as needed).

● Supports the authoring and execution of test cases related to support the implementation of platform development work.

● Maintains and improves service quality and reliability across a complex set of services.

● Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with the Solution Architect and System Administrators.

REQUIRED

● Experience with Cloud Platforms, Data Integration, Data Governance tools, and end to end development and delivery roles and responsibilities.

● Experience designing and implementing Agile or DevOps processes.

● Proficient with OS utilities.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Willing to learn third party applications.

● Fundamental networking knowledge.

● Participates in 24x7 on-call support, including evenings, weekends and/or holidays, as necessary.

Recommended

● Experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Technologies (FileNet P8 Content Services, Datacap, IBM Content Collector, IBM Content Collector for SAP, IBM Navigator, Business Automation Workflow), Adobe Workfront.

● Experience with related ECM solutions (such as Documentum, OpenText, SharePoint).

● Experience with RedHat OpenShift, Docker/Container, MS Azure, IaaS or PaaS solutions.

● Experience with CI/CD orchestration tools e.g., Jenkins, Maven or similar CI/CD.

● Experience supporting products running on Linux or Windows servers.

● Experience with WebSphere Platform and application deployments.

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

Level 4 - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible
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