Platform Engineer: Scalable Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD

Kohl's; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohl's is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering Kohl’s applications, creating scalable, reliable, and secure platforms for the business.

You will collaborate with designers, product managers and engineers to develop platform services, improve CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability, and drive architecture while ensuring high availability and a smooth developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go, or Python.
• Experience with Kubernetes (OpenShift, EKS, GKE, Tanzu, 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.

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

Skills

Java/Go/Python

Kubernetes

Cloud concepts

Learn quickly

Customer focus

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS/CS or related

Tools

Git

Job description

Kohl's is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering Kohl’s applications, creating scalable, reliable, and secure platforms for the business.

You will collaborate with designers, product managers and engineers to develop platform services, improve CI/CD pipelines, enhance observability, and drive architecture while ensuring high availability and a smooth developer experience.