What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate SRE Engineer position at Kingfisher?
Overview
Associate SRE Engineer(Hybrid)
We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
What's the job?
About the role We are going through an exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated Associate SRE Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering sub-chapter. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher.
You will be responsible for the reliability and observability for our products whilst working closely with senior members of the team.
Responsibilities
- Improving the observability of Kingfisher’s products with a customer focused lens to increase the confidence in the ability to pinpoint and resolve issues.
- Work with Senior SREs to provide help in increasing observability and reliability
- Provide SRE representation in blameless post-mortems following P1/P2 incidents.
- Write clear and descriptive technical documentation with the end-user in mind.
- Willing to participate in an on-call rota providing SRE support during Major Incidents
- Work with Product squads to establish SLI’s / SLO’s and participate in monthly reviews.
- Collaborate with the wider technology teams in a DevOps fashion to help to bridge the gap with product squads (Security, APM, Networks, etc.)
What you'll bring
Skills and Experience
- A technical background to be able to provide technical insight.
- Effective communication skills to be able to productively participate in discussion, understand customer’s requirements and clearly articulate yourself when presenting solutions.
- Understanding of SRE principles
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- A willingness to learn and continuously improve by working with new tools and technologies.
- Basic knowledge of CI/CD Platforms – GitLab (preferred), GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.
- Basic knowledge of any one major cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure
- DevOps mindset
- Basic familiarity with modern tooling – e.g. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Scripting Languages – e.g. Bash, Python etc.
- Enterprise monitoring / APM tools – e.g. Datadog or Dynatrace (preferred), Grafana, etc.
- Understanding of SDLC and motivated to work in highly distributed environment
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
To get to know us better visit:
Careers website
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