It engineer Jobs in Plano, TX

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 Enginee rs 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. Platform Engineers are well versed in modern data, infrastructure and integration platforms, industry / technology best practices, and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure while streamlining operational processes.

The Platform Engineer is responsible for the installation, development, configuration, and operations of the Merchandising D365 F&O cloud environment. This role provides solution performance analysis and tuning guidance along with ensuring alignment between business solution and systems architecture. This includes being a primary liaison and point of coordination with horizontal infrastructure and cloud teams providing foundation technology and services in support of our environments. This Platform Engineer role will be responsible for helping to document, design, and develop the D365 cloud infrastructure and all of its capabilities and integrations, ensuring that security, configuration and management is hardened into all of these components.

ROLE

• Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.
• 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 report inefficiencies to relevant business and technology stakeholders.
• Collaborates with infrastructure and / or provisioning groups to stand up the platform.
• 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.
• Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to ensure its reliability.
• Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering with technology vendors.
• Tests diagnostics (including) automated regression testing.
• Authors and executes test cases related to supporting the implementation of platform development work.
• Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with the Architects.
• 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.
• Configures, implements, customizes, and tests software and hardware; documents software and hardware defects; and reviews and interprets error logs to diagnose errors.
• Interfaces with Info security, Merchandise Platform Engineer, Architect, DevOps Engineer, Data Engineer, Cloud Tech, and 3rd Party Vendors to stand up the platform.
• Drives governance through designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and documenting enterprise policies, standards, guidelines, monitoring services, solutions, configurations, and procedures.
• Researches, analyzes, and recommends changes required for system growth (both on-prem and cloud) by utilizing industry standard monitoring and research tools, observability and telemetry data.
• Identifies and resolves problems, often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options, implements solutions, communicates results to ensure corrective and timely action is taken, and manages incident resolution to ensure all components work together.
• Manages / Coordinates virtual servers including : server provisioning, upgrading, installing, monitoring, maintaining, and performance optimization.
• Develops and implements Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS / PaaS) Solutions.
• Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.
• Supports the creation of documentation and artifacts used for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Identifies, develops / documents, implements, reviews, and revises process improvements, procedures, and controls (including SOX) to ensure data accuracy, security, legal, and regulatory compliance.
• Recommends and follows security management practices, including the ongoing promotion of awareness on current threats, auditing of server logs, and other security management processes.
• Creates queries, programs, scripts, and reports supporting and adhering to change control policies that help to define and develop best practices for systems management and automation.
• Works in an Agile environment; collaborates with Operations, Development, and QA functions to develop solutions and systems that are predisposed to scalability, security, and simplified maintenance, utilizing automation.
• Performs analysis on existing platform components to identify improvements in software development processes.
• Supports the authoring and execution of test cases related to the implementation of platform development work.
• Participates in DevOps, Agile, and continuous integration frameworks.
• Mentors members of the IWM and Merchandise Platform and Ops team and will be an education resource.

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Pay Ranges :

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

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

Level Senior - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Eligible

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.

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.