Job Description
About the Role As Associate Platform Engineer, you will design, build and maintain the infrastructure and services that power Kohl’s applications. You will develop, test, deploy and iteratively improve platform capabilities, features and APIs under the direction of designers, product managers, end-users and other engineers on the platform team. What You’ll Do Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, end-user feedback and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes Contribute to the development and integration of high-quality, secure platform services that are simple to use, easy to operate, difficult to break, fully integrated and extremely observable with measurable results Support all technical aspects of the platform services lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, data, security, CICD, support and easy-to-read documentation 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 our platform's overall architecture and technical strategy. Create scalable, reliable, secure platforms supporting Kohl’s growing business needs Streamline development processes, improve system performance and ensure the high availability of services Work with SRE team to ensuring out platforms meet their SLA’s and SLO’s Additional tasks may be assigned What Skills You Have Required Basic understanding of continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development Basic understanding of automation technologies used for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 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 Basic knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture and testing strategies Experience working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) Experience with Kubernetes based container platforms (Openshift, GKE, EKS…) Experience with IAC automation technologies such as OpenTofu, Ansible, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Packer, Gitlab CI, Python, and more