What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer position at Kingfisher?
Overview
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 and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Platforms and SRE 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 an engineering platform enabling construction of quality software using DevOps practices and principles. 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive automation in all technical areas.
- Supporting the design and delivery of the engineering platform, pipelines and paths to production.
- Working closely with colleagues in and outside of the team 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
Skills and Experience
- Solid hands-on experience with Agile, DevOps, SRE, and DevEx practices.
- Proficient in tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Git, Jira, Confluence, and Backstage etc.
- Familiarity with one or more of the following: SonarQube, Nexus, Micro Focus tools.
- Strong expertise in AWS, with additional exposure to GCP and Azure considered a plus.
- Proven experience in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform.
- Practical experience with containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong technical foundation in designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines across a variety of technology stacks.
- Good understanding of monitoring and observability tools, such as Datadog or Dynatrace.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to support teams in making sound technical decisions.
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
To get to know us better visit:
Careers website
Kingfisher plc
