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. In 2018, Costco contributed over $39 million to organizations such as United Way and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the second largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve 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 consistently ranks in the top five of Forbes “America’s Best Employers”.

The JAVA Application Server Administrator – WebSphere is responsible for the support, installation, configuration, and monitoring of Java Application and Web servers. These servers run primarily on Red Hat Linux as well as some IBM AIX hosts.

This is not a Developer position.

If you want to be a part of one of the BEST “to work for” companies in the world, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Provides operational support for WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and other products supported by the middleware team.
• Delivers project based work to agreed target dates. Notifies project manager and engineer of any roadblocks.
• Works with vendors, business and application development teams, and other technical teams to meet the needs of the project.
• Installs, configures and monitors all applications and web servers.
• Works with Engineers to implement and support the project’s infrastructure design.
• Monitors load tests, perform deploys, review logs, and various other tasks maintaining the middleware portfolio.
• Seeks opportunities to learn, automate, document, share, educate, and improve processes.
• Follows corporate security standards and best practices, including the promotion of awareness on current threats.
• Understands and adheres to Costco’s project methodology and framework.
• Understands and adheres to Costco’s Mission Statement and Code of Ethics.
• Participates in rotating on-call support 24×7 and be available to work weekends and/or holidays.

REQUIRED

• Minimum of two years’ experience supporting products running on AIX or Linux servers.
• Minimum of one year shell and/or Jython scripting.
• Minimum of one year supporting production java application server environments, preferably IBM WebSphere or Liberty but will accept WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle AppServer, or iPlanet experience.
• Must be proficient with OS utilities such as vi, top/topas, crontab, nslookup, ifconfig, and ssh to troubleshoot issues.
• Team player – friendly, communicative, open, honest, thoughtful and committed. Must work cooperatively with others, sharing ideas and collaborating and ultimately putting team goals first.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willing to learn third party applications.
• Fundamental networking knowledge.

Recommended

• Unix administration or certification.
• IBM WebSphere Application Server certification.
• WebSphere Commerce Server experience.
• LDAP/Oracle/DB2/MQ integration.
• Container & Cloud Technologies.
• Experience with monitoring tools.
• SSL/SSO experience.
• Jython, JACL, and/or PERL scripting.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Apart from any religious or disability considerations, open availability is needed to meet the needs of the business. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.