Senior Platform Engineer - Storage, Backup & Compute (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Senior Platform Engineer on the Storage, Backup & Compute team, you will be critical in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and services that power Kohl’s applications. 

What You’ll Do

• Drive the development, design, testing, deployments and iterative improvement of platform capabilities, features, and APIs in collaboration with designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the platform team

• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes

• Develop and integrate high-quality platform services that are secure, simple to use, easy to operate, difficult to break, fully integrated and extremely observable with measurable results

• Take responsibility for all technical aspects of the platform services lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, support and easy-to-read documentation

• Establish platform engineering and software standards

• Continuously develop and demonstrate a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture and industry best practices

• Mentor and assist engineers while evangelizing best practices

• Create scalable, reliable, secure platforms supporting Kohl’s growing business needs

• Streamline development processes, improve system performance and ensure the high availability of services

• Leverage a deep understanding of cloud technologies, automation tools and infrastructure-as-code practices to build and manage complex systems

• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhancing monitoring and logging frameworks and contributing to Kohl’s platform's overall architecture and technical strategy

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

• Experience with data replication technologies (Zerto, Site Recovery Manager, Veeam, Rubrik, etc.).

• Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go or Python

• Passion for turning complex distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated, and easy-to-use products for developers

• Experience in software development and cloud computing, including cloud resource management and security

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly

• Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

• 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development

• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies

• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

• Knowledge and experience working with platform as code and GitOps methodologies

• Involvement with and contribution to open source projects

• Experience with Kubernetes and major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

• Understanding of vSphere / ESXi environments, including clustering and vCenter.

• Experience working with storage technologies (SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS) and understanding of how they work with replication.

• Familiarity with networking concepts required for replication.

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner