Platform Engineer -SQL Server at Costco in Issaquah, WA

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.

The SQL Server Platform Engineer will be actively involved in the evaluation, review, and management of database resources and services across the organization to ensure optimum uptime and performance. While providing the database expertise needed for the team’s success, the individual in this role will also be required to develop, follow, and enforce database standards.

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.

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

● 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.

● 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).

● 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.

● Deploys and maintains Microsoft SQL Server databases/DB projects across a range of current SQL Server versions in both physical and virtual environments.

● Maintains database security, integrity, and availability.

● Manages database performance and capacity.

● Ensures the database platform operations meet or exceed compliance requirements.

● Implements database design enhancements.

● Collaborates with the development team on creating and evaluating stored procedures, tables, indexes, etc.

● Maintains detailed documentation of database Design/Architecture and setup.

● Establishes procedures for backup/recovery and disaster recovery.

● Configures and monitors clustering, including Always On and Failover clustering.

● Designs and builds operational infrastructure to support our databases, automating where possible.

● Establishes database security procedures.

● Creates users, assigns roles, and manages permissions.

● Works on a wide range of projects interfacing with development teams, business analysts, IS management, and members of the business community; ensures the work is aligned with the business and technology customers.

● Maintains current knowledge of industry trends and standards.

● Provides support to the user community using incident and problem management tools.

REQUIRED

● At least 12+ years’ administration experience in a relational database environment at enterprise scale, including at least 8 years’ in-depth experience as a production SQL Server database administrator on current versions.

● Strong knowledge of high availability and Disaster Recovery architecture.

● Experience in Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning.

● Strong Scripting and Programming skills, including Python, PowerShell, Terraform (TFE).

● Expert knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure database services and offerings or similar cloud platforms.

● Extensive experience with Kerberos, encryption at rest and in transit, and other security topics.

● Experience with Compliance requirements, such as SOX, GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, MHMD, as it relates to databases.

● Ability to work with minimal supervision.

● Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

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 IT-Recruiting@costco.com

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

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