• Senior Platform Engineer - Storage, Backup…

    Kohl's (Menomonee Falls, WI)


    About the Role

     

    As Senior Platform Engineer on the Storage, Backup & Compute team, you will be critical in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and services that power Kohl’s applications.

    What You’ll Do

    + Drive the development, design, testing, deployments and iterative improvement of 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

    + Establish platform engineering and software standards

    + Continuously develop and demonstrate a strong knowledge of new technologies, modern application architecture and industry best practices

    + Mentor and assist engineers while evangelizing best practices

    + Create scalable, reliable, secure platforms supporting Kohl’s growing business needs

    + Streamline development processes, improve system performance and ensure the high availability of services

    + Leverage a deep 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

     

    What Skills You Have

    Required

    + Experience with data replication technologies (Zerto, Site Recovery Manager, Veeam, Rubrik, etc.).

    + Experience with object-oriented development using Java, Go or Python

    + Passion for turning complex distributed systems into highly available, fully integrated, and easy-to-use products for developers

    + Experience in software development and cloud computing, including cloud resource management and security

    + 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

    + 4+ years of experience in software or infrastructure platform development

    + Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies

    + In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

    + Knowledge and experience working with platform as code and GitOps methodologies

    + Involvement with and contribution to open source projects

    + Experience with Kubernetes and major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)

    + Understanding of vSphere / ESXi environments, including clustering and vCenter.

    + Experience working with storage technologies (SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS) and understanding of how they work with replication.

    + Familiarity with networking concepts required for replication.