Costco Wholesale
Website:
costco.com
Job details:
About Costco Wholesale:
Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in eleven countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable experience for their members.
About Costco Wholesale India:
At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing innovative solutions that improve members’ experiences and make employees’ jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join our Data Replication team. In this role, you will be the backbone of our hybrid data pipeline infrastructure, ensuring seamless, high-throughput, and low-latency data movement from a mix of on-premises and cloud sources into our primary Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
You will own the design, implementation, and maintenance of our replication topology, leveraging Oracle Golden Gate to bridge legacy systems with modern cloud data platforms. If you thrive on optimizing data infrastructure, automating deployments, and scaling hybrid environments, we want you on our team.
Job Duties/Essential Functions:
- Infrastructure & Topology Design: Architect, build, and maintain robust data replication topologies using Oracle Golden Gate, spanning on-premises data centers and Google Cloud.
- Cloud Integration: Efficiently stream data into GCP Pub/Sub ensuring data integrity and minimal lag.
- Automation & GitOps: Treat infrastructure as code. Manage configurations and automated deployments using GitHub (including GitHub Actions / CI/CD pipelines), Terraform, and Ansible.
- Performance Tuning: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize replication performance, fine-tuning Golden Gate parameters, network throughput, and target ingestion rates.
- Operations & Reliability: Establish robust monitoring, alerting, and self-healing mechanisms for replication pipelines. Participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability.
- Security & Compliance: Implement secure data-in-transit and data-at-rest practices, managing encryption, access controls, and IAM roles across hybrid environments.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Assists in other areas of the department as necessary.
- Assists in other areas of the company as necessary.
Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery:
- Same as essential functions
Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/Certifications Required:
- Golden Gate Expertise: 3+ years of hands-on experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Oracle.
- Golden Gate (Classic or Microservices with Microservices Architecture preferred) in high-volume production environments.
- Hybrid Cloud Experience: Proven experience managing data flow between traditional on-premises source systems (e.g., Oracle DB, SQL Server, DB2) and cloud environments.
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Strong familiarity with GCP infrastructure and managed data services (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Solid experience with Terraform for provisioning cloud resources and automation scripts (Python, Bash, or Go).
Job Family:
- Linux Administration: Deep understanding of Linux OS, networking fundamentals (VPNs, Interconnect, routing), and security protocols.
- Observability: Experience setting up monitoring for replication lag and errors using tools like Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog, or GCP Cloud Monitoring.
Recommended:
- Experience with Oracle Golden Gate Veri data for data validation.
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Data Engineer certification.
- Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
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