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# Senior Reliability Engineer (Remote)

- **Company:** Kohl’s, Inc.
- **Location:** Menomonee Falls, WI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** OpenTofu, Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Configuration Management, Computer Programming, Database Schema, Monitoring of Systems, Job Control Language (JCL), IBM Mainframe, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, IBM Resource Access Control Facility, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Strategies of Testing, Transaction Processing (Computing), Tso/ispf, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Rancher, Machine Learning Operations, Cloudwatch, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Elixir, Golang
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ae5ad5f37c342e8e

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
 * 4+ years of experience in software development
 * Strong programming skills in one or more languages (Java, Python, Go or Node.js)
 * In-depth knowledge of systems architecture, operating system internals and network fundamentals
 * In-depth knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies
 * Experience with multi-region application troubleshooting and performance tuning
 * Working experience on IBM Mainframe (TSO/ISPF, JCL, Batch job scheduling, transaction processing (CICS) and Security (RACF)
 * Working experience with one cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
 * Working experience with monitoring techniques and tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Tracing)

Preferred

 * In-depth knowledge of containerization and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher)
 * Experience with one or more configuration management systems (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
 * Working experience with Elixir
 * Passion for and experience with AI and ML methodologies (MLOps)
 * Experience writing Infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu)

## Description

* Drive error budget and Service Level Objective (SLO) adoption across products
 * Drive incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to enhance system reliability
 * Establish consistent practices that elevate Kohl's operational excellence through automation and process improvements
 * Follow software lifecycle and drive reliability, observability, and efficiency across product teams within an assigned domain
 * Identify repeated toil and find opportunities for automation and risk reduction
 * On-call on a rotation to respond to production incidents and conduct blameless retros and root-cause analyses (RCAs) to drive a culture of continuous improvements
 * Proactively identifies failures before they cause outages using chaos engineering techniques such as edge cases, failure modes and design review
 * Advise on capacity planning and provide continuous assessments on systems behavior and consumption
 * Work with product managers to identify and prioritize work for reliability best practices (i.e., leveraging SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets)
 * Mentors and assists engineers on the team
 * Additional tasks may be assigned