Platform Engineer - Enterprise Service Integration

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. 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.

This position is responsible for the installation, development, configuration, and operations of the web service gateway platform which includes API management, Datapower Gateway, Websphere Service registry, and Repository. The gateway and service bus are core to Costco integration strategy and they work in support of web service and API consumers and providers. Security configuration and management is hardened into all of these components. This Platform Engineer role will be responsible for helping to document, design, and develop the service integration infrastructure and all of its capabilities. This Platform Engineer role will also participate and provide leadership for ongoing development and maturity of API and service governance.

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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 check-ups and report 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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Maintains current knowledge of industry trends and standards around API management and security.

Mentors members of the IT team and be an education resource for the integration team.

Collaborates across teams to enhance and add new capabilities to our platform to support consumers and providers.

Develops, configures, operates, and evolves the API Management platform (Apigee, Azure APIM).

Develops, configures, operates, and evolves the internal service bus and external service gateway platforms (DataPower).

Helps to define what a target end-state architecture will look like leveraging both cloud and on-prem solutions.

Operates and helps evolve the service registry and repository platform (WSRR).

Develops, configures, operates, and evolves the developer portal (Apigee, Azure APIM).

Develops, evolves, hardens and maintains security infrastructure for service integration components.

Optimizes API and service proxy runtime components.

Recommends and develops service integration standards, guidelines, and best practices.

Works with Service Engineering to ensure that service designs utilize the appropriate patterns and standards.

REQUIRED

3 to 5 years' development experience using Java/Python and Javascript.

3 to 5 years' scripting to automate operational tasks.

1 to 2 years' experience developing and deploying services or APIs.

Experience working with SAML and OAUTH security.

Hands-on experience with XSLT.

Ability to document standards, policies, installation guides.
Recommended
Hands-on experience with Apigee Edge, Datapower, Azure APIM or other similar technologies.

Hands-on experience with Splunk searching and reporting.

Hands-on experience with scripting Jython/Python and Shell scripting.

Familiarity with application and service integration patterns.

Familiarity with WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker (IIB), and WebSphere MQ.

Familiarity with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR).

Required Documents

Cover Letter

Resume

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Pay Ranges:

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

Level SR - $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.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.