Early Talent - 2027 - Technology - Site Reliability Engineer Internship

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As an IT Intern, you will learn the core principles and fundamentals of Information Technology within Kohl’s and contribute to key work to drive business outcomes and deliverables forward.

What You’ll Do

• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation and data to identify and capture stakeholder requirements, build use cases and achieve desired business outcomes 

• Understand and contribute to requirement specification documents

• Research and leverage industry best practices

• Demonstrate a passion for learning and experimenting with new technologies

• Participate in brainstorming as part of a balanced team(s)

• Additional tasks may be assigned

Addendum

Data Science Intern

• Solve and create data models and algorithms from high volumes of data to be used in enterprise applications

• Develop solutions that have a large real-world impact on the business and become a leader in the space

• Analyze peer-reviewed research to justify approaches and communicate the benefits to stakeholders

• Explore, understand and implement the most recent algorithms and approaches for supervised and unsupervised machine learning

• Handle multi-terabyte data sets in scale-up and scale-out environments

• Understand business processes that create and consume data to be able to select the best approaches, evaluate their performance and assess business relevance

Business Intelligence Engineering Intern

• Work as part of a balanced team with product management, engineering and design

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify problem statements that could be better actioned on with data visibility and analytical insights

• Enable value to be drawn from raw structured and unstructured data sources by applying complex derivations, transformations and rules

• Perform analysis of internal and external data to surface major trends and insights 

• Design high-quality production data products that teams across the enterprise can depend on to run their business

Information Security Intern

• Get exposure to compliance, governance and information monitoring

• Review and operate enterprise-wide security platforms and investigate events using security management software

• Maintain and communicate information security policies and coordinate company-wide information security controls

• Contribute to and improve Kohl’s policies and processes

• Conduct information security audit preparation, coordination and response

Platform Engineering Intern

• Work on automating, problem-solving and partnering with other technology groups

• Work on cutting-edge systems and solve real-world problems, both in Cloud and Network platforms

• Collaborate with Balanced Teams to understand pain points in taking their ideas and getting them to the customer

• Explore new technologies to understand how they can help the team be more efficient and stable

• Learn how to manage a cloud environment and deploy a secure and safe environment

Product Design Intern

• Support Product Designer work by assisting with research, testing, visual designs and synthesis of research

• Participate in Design workshops, Balanced Teams and testing with users and associates both digitally and at stores

• Present the outcomes of an assigned project at the conclusion of the internship

• Lead discovery and framing in a defined problem space, arrive at a solution and experiment

• Learn and drive User Centric Design practices consisting of end user’s needs, wants and limitations

• Develop visual identity systems, data visualizations, visual design and illustrations for feedback and testing

Product Management Intern

• Define a product vision and strategy

• Determine the scope for feature additions and enhancements

• Specify metrics that measure product success

• Write stories for prioritized features, including success criteria to guide engineering through development

• Participate in an intern group project where you will present an innovative idea to Kohl's executives

Site Reliability Engineering Intern

• Follow software lifecycle, driving reliability, observability, and efficiency across product teams within your domain

• Identify repeated toil and find opportunities for automation

• Shadow a rotation and learn about responding to production incidents and assist with blameless retros and root-cause analysis (RCAs) to drive a culture of continuous improvements

• Perform analyses of internal and external data to surface major trends and insights

• Design high-quality production products that teams across the enterprise can depend on to run their business

Software Engineering Intern

• Participate in the full software development life cycle, including strategy sessions

• Develop software in collaboration with Kohl’s engineering team, utilizing cloud native and agile software development techniques

• Work with large-scale multi-tiered systems

• Participate in an intern group project where you will present an innovative idea to Kohl's executives

What Skills You Have

Required 

• Ability to problem solve and look at logic to justify processes and decisions

• A passion, aptitude and interest in technology

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner