What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer (Engineering Centre) position at Kingfisher?
Overview
Senior DevOps Engineer – Krakow / Remote Working Pattern
We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. 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 advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.
Role Overview:
We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Tooling Services Team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher. You will be responsible for the delivery of continuous quality software using DevOps practices and principles focused on an Infrastructure delivery model. You will be expected to be actively pairing to share knowledge, make key decisions, whilst enabling the delivery team's progress around all aspects from individual growth, service improvements and future strategies.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!
What's the job?
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
- Drive automation in all technical areas
- Supporting the Design and delivery of pipelines and paths to production
- Working closely with the Tech Lead, Product Owner and scrum masters to create, deliver and support the platform in line with our infrastructure strategy
- Reviewing automation in technical areas and recommend improvements
- Deploy, plan and maintain IAAS, PAAS & tooling capabilities
- Creation and ongoing ownership of the platform common standards and practices
What you'll bring
Required Skills & Experience
- A strong background and working knowledge of DevOps practices and key technologies
- Strong knowledge of AWS and/or GCP
- Any experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or Cloud Formation
- A strong technical background in build and release environments, with experience of CI tools such as Gitlab or Jenkins
- A good understanding and any experience of monitoring tools like DataDog or Dynatrace
- Have strong problem-solving skills to help the teams when decisions are needed
What we offer
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 also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
