Remote Cloud Engineer

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.

Role Overview:

We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our DevOps Engineering 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!

• Building, managing, supporting and improving capabilities including all the normal DevOps type skills (automation, collaboration, continuous delivery etc) in our AWS and other future cloud services
• Pairing to share knowledge and increase delivery team’s maturity around operability as well as implementation and upkeep of common IAAS, PAAS & tooling capabilities.
• Platform backlog grooming and planning and automation of all aspects
• Implementation and upkeep of common pipelines and paths to production as well as common standards and practices
• Working with the product owner and scrum masters to create and communicate a cohesive platform vision in accordance with KF infrastructure strategies and vendors or Open Source technology as required

• A strong background and working knowledge of DevOps practices and key technologies
• Scripting language or coding experience (including Powershell, Python, Shell, Bash)
• A good technical background in build and release environments, with experience of CI tools such as Gitlab or Jenkins
• Strong knowledge of Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu and CentOS) and Windows as well as Private and Public Cloud Capabilities (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc)
• Experience in Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation as well as strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools including Ansible, Puppet or equivalent tools
• Proven 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)
• A solid 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