Platform Engineer; Remote

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.

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.

• 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 device management tools such as Workspace ONE, Intune, Jamf Pro, etc.
• Experience administering Windows, macOS, Android, or iOS at scale
• General understanding of device security, networking, patch management, and application deployment.

• 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 Git Ops methodologies