Senior Platform Engineer – Storage, Backup & Compute (Remote)

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

Required

What Skills You Have

• 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.