Job Description
About the Role
As an Associate Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the resilience and availability of Kohl's 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.
What You'll Do
- 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) to drive a culture of continuous improvements
- Proactively identify failures before they cause outages by using chaos engineering techniques such as edge cases, failure modes and design review
- Additional tasks may be assigned
What Skills You Have
Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
- Programming skills in one or more languages (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
Preferred
- Basic knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies
- Basic knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Working experience with Elixir
- Basic knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development
- Basic understanding of containerization and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher)
- Basic understanding of configuration management (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
- Familiarity with monitoring techniques and tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Tracing)
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Menomonee Falls, WI (Remote) |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1962 |
| Website | http://www.kohls.com |
About Company
At Kohl's, our mission is to inspire and empower families to lead fulfilled lives. And there's no more rewarding job than that. Because it's not just about selling things. It's about letting customers know that the things that make their lives better are within their reach. We build great brands, launch new technologies to make shopping easier, contribute our time and dollars to improve the world we live in and dream up ways to empower our customers and Associates to create a life they love. Our Associates make a difference in the lives of our customers. Let us make a difference in yours.
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