Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

Senior Cloud Engineer

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. Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in building, managing, and enhancing our AWS-based cloud capabilities, leveraging skills in automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery. This hands-on role requires a broad skill set and consultative approach to ensure best practices are implemented effectively. You will work closely with delivery teams to increase operational maturity, automate processes, and maintain a high level of platform reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and improve AWS/cloud capabilities, focusing on automation and continuous delivery.

• Lead and consult with on-site teams to implement and automate best practices.

• Share knowledge and improve team maturity in operational practices.

• Oversee platform backlog grooming, planning, and process automation.

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure consistent implementation of IAAS, PAAS, and tooling standards.

• Maintain common pipelines, production paths, and shared standards and practices.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to align platform vision with infrastructure strategies and Open Source/vendor technology.

What you'll bring

Skills and experience

• Proven experience in Continuous Delivery, coding (Python, Shell, Bash), and a collaborative approach with cross-functional teams.

• Strong background in build and release management with CI tools (e.g., GitLab Runners, Jenkins), and expertise in Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOS) and Windows, along with experience in public and private cloud (AWS or Google Cloud, etc).

• Skilled in Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, with automation experience including unit testing.

• Ability to design and support robust build, deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier services using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Salt and a good understanding of telemetry practices (monitoring, graphing, alerting, anomaly detection).

• Understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, DNS as well as Palo Alto, Cumulus and F5) and expertise with software build tools (GitHub, Jenkins etc).

• Experience of running software in production is key and demonstrable experience of working closely with and supporting the security administration process and relevant security domain leads, within a cloud-dev-ops context.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

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