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

Required

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.