Platform Engineer

Summary

Kohl’s is a retail company seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure and services that support its applications. The role develops platform capabilities and APIs, manages the full platform services lifecycle, improves developer experience and system performance, and contributes to cloud, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and architecture strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy and iteratively improve 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
• Improve and simplify the platform user experience for development teams
• Contribute to platform engineering and software standards
• Continuously develop self and support the development of others
• Streamline Kohl’s development processes, improve system performance and ensure the high availability of services
• Leverage your 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
• Experience with deploying, configuring, migrating and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc
• Experience with Frontend UX Development or Backend Server Development
• Experience with Javascript or Typescript, Node.js, or React with Material UI or similar framework
• Familiar with 12 Factor cloud-native application principles

Skills

• Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go, or Python
• Experience with Kubernetes (Can include distributions such as Red Hat Openshift, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Tanzu TKG, etc...)
• Experience using Git as a daily source code control versioning
• Background in software development and working knowledge of cloud computing concepts
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly
• Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies
• Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development
• Knowledge and experience working with platform as code and GitOps methodologies

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go, or Python
• Experience with Kubernetes (Can include distributions such as Red Hat Openshift, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Tanzu TKG, etc...)
• Experience using Git as a daily source code control versioning
• Background in software development and working knowledge of cloud computing concepts
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or techniques quickly
• Open-minded approaches to problem-solving centered around the needs of the customer

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies
• Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development
• Knowledge and experience working with platform as code and GitOps methodologies