Lead Cloud Engineer

Overview

Lead Cloud Engineer – Krakow – Remote or Hybrid 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.

 

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application, please contact us at kingfisher.recruitment@kingfisher.com

 

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 an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer, able to facilitate continuous delivery of quality software using DevOps practices and principles focused on an Infrastructure delivery model. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher.

 

Our Cloud Platform and Reliability (CP&R) Department is looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to join an evolving team with plenty of exciting opportunities. 

In the role you will be working as part of the cloud central platform teams and be a part of vital enabler of Kingfisher engineering capability. Among your responsibilites there will be expansion of the cloud capability in cooperation with Cloud Partners. You'll have opportunities for hybrid and remote working with a team that is spread across the country and multiple regions. You will be working with the Agile format and the role requires pair coding to enable upskilling of team and continuous learning.

 

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:

• Being responsible for building, operating, and improving the central cloud platforms through the environment life cycle to production, which is to be consumed by engineering and business teams. This involves networking, identity, security, and other enabling features such as Backup and DR service
• Guiding product teams on cloud technologies and ways of working. Advising on correct way of building application in the cloud using Well Architect Pillars
• Automation is key and is strongly implemented through all parts of the services as much as possible; pipelines, setting up, monitoring and alerting
• Collaborative approach to enhance and enrich the platform by working alongside Tech Leads, Stakeholders and Business Leaders. Investigating new technologies, pattens and approaches and provide recommendations to roadmap items
• Taking part in Agile methodology in either Scrum or Kanban. Supporting and directing the team by contributing your options, successes, and feedbacks
• Managing and supporting centralised engineering development toolset

What you'll bring

Required Skills & Experience

• Good knowledge of Cloud Technologies one or more (GCP, AWS) and writing Infrastructure as Code
• A strong technical background in using development tools such as Git, Terraform, GitLab
• Experience in one of more of Sonarqube, Jenkins, Microfocus, PACT Broker, Nexus
• Problem solving mindset, to be able to investigate issues and apply fixes through the development lifecycle
• A background utilising DevOps practices to enable Continuous Delivery
• Ability to communicate efficiently as you will be working with vendors, developers and business teams
• Ability to develop roadmaps and provide the team with technical direction.
• Ability to develop in a CI/CD methodology using either Jenkins or Gitlab

Desirable experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Experience in security concept and tools
• Understanding of Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu)
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts, technologies, and protocols
• Jira / Confluence for collaborating and