Associate Reliability Engineer (Remote)

About the RoleAs 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 DoFollow software lifecycle driving reliability, observability and efficiency across product teams within your domainIdentify repeated toil and find opportunities for automationRemain 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 improvementsProactively identify failures before they cause outages by using chaos engineering techniques such as edge cases, failure modes and design reviewAdditional tasks may be assignedWhat Skills You HaveRequiredBachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related fieldProgramming skills in one or more languages (Java, Python, Go or Node.js)Basic knowledge of systems architecture, operating system internals and network fundamentals PreferredBasic knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategiesBasic knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure)Basic knowledge of continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven developmentBasic 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) Job SummaryJob number: R508397Profession: Technology