Platform Engineer

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.

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

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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 employee

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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 while streamlining operational process

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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 compon

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ROLE

Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environmen

t stability.

Assesses technical components, translates high level design into low level technical design and executes updates b

ased on SLAs.

Manages the D365 F&O platform on an ongoing basis while performing typical run functions like monitoring, patchin

g and support.

Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the app

lication level.

Conducts regular D365 platform checkups and report inefficiencies to relevant business and technolo

gy 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 dev

elopment processes.

Develops and implements Platform as a Servi

ce (PaaS) Solutions.

Performs coding tests to validate hardware design correctness, and creates software regression tests to en

sure its reliability.

Delivers against business objectives by effectively managing and partnering wi

th technology vendors.

Tests diagnostics (including) automa

ted regression testing.

Authors and executes test cases related to supporting the implementation of pl

atform development work.

Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collabora

tion with the Architects.

Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices as well a

s regulatory requirements.

Implements and maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control be

st practices and standards.

Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational con

tinuity of critical systems.

Configures, implements, customizes, and tests software and hardware; documents software and hardware defects; and reviews and interprets e

rror logs to diagnose errors.

Interfaces with Info security, Merchandise Platform Engineer, Architect, DevOps Engineer, Data Engineer, Cloud Tech, and 3rd Party Ven

dors 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, o

bservability 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 ens

ure all components work together.