About us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
Position Overview:
As an Engineer – Compute Virtualization, you will join the engineering team responsible for building, supporting, and improving compute and
virtualization capabilities. Approximately 6 months or more of apprenticeship, internship, training, or equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure, software engineering, cloud, virtualization, or related technologies.
You should understand core concepts across compute infrastructure, virtualization, operating systems, networking, storage, automation, and cloud technologies. A successful engineer progressively builds a strong foundation in compute virtualization and infrastructure, becomes more confident troubleshooting technical problems, contributes to automation and engineering work, takes increasing ownership of assigned responsibilities, and becomes a dependable member
of the team. We value curiosity, accountability, teamwork, and a strong desire to learn and grow.
What You Will Do:
• Build practical knowledge of compute, server virtualization, and infrastructure through deployment, configuration, testing, and support.
• Troubleshoot Linux/Ubuntu, virtualization, networking, infrastructure, and application issues with guidance from experienced engineers.
• Gain hands-on experience with Ansible, infrastructure APIs, automation, and configuration management.
• Develop Go engineering practices, including Git, code reviews, testing, debugging, documentation, and design discussions.
• Use metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts to monitor services and participate in production support.
• Document and share technical findings, procedures, troubleshooting steps, and lessons learned.
• Collaborate across teams, communicate progress and blockers, and take on increasingly complex responsibilities as skills grow.
Technical Qualifications:
Familiarity with some of the following areas is expected:
• Server virtualization concepts and terminology, including virtual machines, hypervisors, hosts, clusters, CPU, memory, and resource allocation.
• Linux, preferably Ubuntu, including common commands and basic administration and troubleshooting.
• Fundamental compute, storage, and networking concepts, including IP addressing, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, high availability, and persistent versus ephemeral compute.
• Git and basic software-development practices; exposure to at least one low level programming language. Go/Golang experience is an advantage, not a requirement.
• REST APIs; familiarity with gRPC is an advantage.
• Automation or configuration-management concepts; exposure to Ansible is preferred.
• Testing concepts such as unit, integration, and automated testing.
• Cloud infrastructure concepts and how compute resources are provisioned and managed.
• Container technologies such as Docker, containerd, or Kubernetes, and monitoring/logging tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, or the ELK stack, are advantages.
What We Are Looking For:
• Curiosity & learning: You investigate how systems work, ask thoughtful questions, learn from experienced engineers, and apply feedback.
• Accountability: You take ownership of assigned tasks, communicate when blocked or when help is needed, follow through on commitments, and learn from mistakes.
• Teamwork: You collaborate respectfully with engineers and partner teams, share what you know, learn from others, and contribute where needed.
• Problem solving: You approach problems logically, gather evidence from logs, documentation, error messages, and system behavior, and break larger problems into manageable pieces.
• Communication: You communicate technical information clearly in written and verbal form, document what you learn, and openly share progress, questions, and blockers.
Education & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical/industry
experience.
Know More About Us here:
- Life at Target: https://india.target.com/
- Benefits: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
- Culture: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging
- Target Tech: https://tech.target.com/
Skills Required
- Approximately 6 months or more of apprenticeship, internship, training, or equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure, software engineering, cloud, virtualization, or related technologies
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical or industry experience
- Understanding of server virtualization concepts, including virtual machines, hypervisors, hosts, clusters, CPU, memory, and resource allocation
- Linux familiarity, preferably Ubuntu, including common commands and basic administration and troubleshooting
- Fundamental compute, storage, and networking concepts, including IP addressing, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, high availability, and persistent versus ephemeral compute
- Git familiarity and basic software-development practices
- Exposure to at least one low-level programming language
- Familiarity with REST APIs
- Automation or configuration-management concepts
- Testing concepts including unit, integration, and automated testing
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and compute resource provisioning and management
- Go or Golang experience
- gRPC familiarity
- Ansible exposure
- Container technologies such as Docker, containerd, or Kubernetes
- Monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, InfluxDB, or the ELK stack
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
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