Platform Engineer

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As a Platform Engineer, you will design, build and maintain the infrastructure and services that power Kohl’s applications and create scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that support Kohl’s growing business needs. 

What You’ll Do

• 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

Addendum

PLATFORM ENGINEER (Stateful Systems) 

• Experience with deploying, configuring, migrating and supporting common stateful distributed systems, messaging, or database technologies such as Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, etc.

• PLATFORM ENGINEER (Developer Portal) 

• 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

What Skills You Have

Required

• 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 

Preferred

• 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

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 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