Overview:
We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - 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, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
The Cloud Platform and SRE (CPS) Department is seeking an experienced engineer to join a growing team with exciting opportunities ahead. We are looking for a candidate who has a strong background in Cloud Engineering principles and a solid understanding of SRE methodology. This role will involve working within the cloud central platform teams and will play a key part in enabling Kingfisher’s engineering capabilities.

What’s the job?:

• Be 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.
• Guide 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, to setting up monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborative approach to enhance and enrich the platform by working with the Tech Leads, Stakeholders and Business Leaders. Investigating new technologies, pattens and approaches and provide recommendations to roadmap items.
• Take part in Agile methodology in either Scrum or Kanban. Support the team by contributing your options, successes, and feedbacks.

What you’ll bring:

• Good knowledge of cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) with a focus on networking, security, and writing Infrastructure as Code.
• A strong technical background in using development tools such as Git, Terraform, GitLab CI, etc.
• Problem-solving mindset, with the ability to investigate issues and apply fixes throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience in utilizing Cloud Engineering practices to enable Continuous Delivery.
• Ability to communicate efficiently when working with vendors, developers, and business teams.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience in security concepts and tools.
• Understanding of Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu).
• Knowledge of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS, as well as technologies like Palo Alto and F5.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Automation skills in testing, scripting (Bash/Python), pipelines, and utilities.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting.
  Be Customer Focused – constantly improving our customers’ experience
  We listen to our customers and colleagues
  We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead
  Be Human – leading with purpose, humanity and care
  We do the right thing
  We invest in our people and build great teams

We focus on performance outcomes
We prioritise and simplify for others
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 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.

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