Associate Reliability Engineer — Automate & Elevate Uptime

Kohl's; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohl1s is seeking an Associate Reliability Engineer to ensure the resilience and availability of the company1s systems and applications. You will drive incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to enhance system reliability.

Through automation and process improvements, you will help establish consistent practices that elevate our operational excellence. You will participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless retrospectives, and identify

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field.
• Experience programming in Java, Python, Go or Node.js.
• Working experience on IBM Mainframe (TSO/ISPF, JCL, Batch job scheduling, transaction processing (CICS) and Security (RACF)).
• Basic knowledge of systems architecture, operating system internals and network fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Follow software lifecycle driving reliability, observability and efficiency across product teams within your domain.
• Identify repeated toil and find opportunities for automation.
• Remain part of an on-call rotation to respond to production incidents and conduct blameless retros and root-cause analyses (RCAs).
• Proactively identify failures before they cause outages using chaos engineering techniques.

Skills

Programming languages

Mainframe knowledge

Systems architecture

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS or CS

Job description

Kohl1s is seeking an Associate Reliability Engineer to ensure the resilience and availability of the company1s systems and applications. You will drive incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to enhance system reliability.

Through automation and process improvements, you will help establish consistent practices that elevate our operational excellence. You will participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless retrospectives, and identify