Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)

Kingfisher; Kraków; On-site; PLN 334,800 - 424,080; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life insurance financed by employer

Co-financing of monthly tickets for Kr

Training & Buddy programme

Wellbeing programme

Hybrid work (1 day in Kraków)

LinkedIn Learning access

Employee referral programme

Job summary

Kingfisher seeks an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer to lead a team building, operating, and evolving our Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) supporting ~1500 engineers. The platform powers the full software delivery lifecycle with self-hosted tooling like GitLab Ultimate, Nexus, SonarQube, and related services.

This role combines technical leadership, people management, and platform strategy to ensure high availability, scalability, and superior developer experience.

Qualifications

• Strong experience administering and configuring GitLab Ultimate (self-hosted).
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with developer tooling ecosystems (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube).
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer tools.
• Proven people leadership and team management experience.
• Strong solution design and architectural thinking.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration.
• Ability to operate in large-scale engineering environments.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on pragmatism.
• Track record of improving platform reliability and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers delivering cloud-based developer tooling.
• Set goals, priorities, and performance expectations while fostering a collaborative, ownership-driven culture.
• Support onboarding and career development.
• Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Internal Engineering Platform.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of GitLab Ultimate, Nexus Repository, SonarQube, and CI/CD tooling.
• Define platform standards, golden paths, and reusable components.
• Design scalable cloud solutions across AWS and GCP.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and support key technical decisions.
• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and platform engineering best practices.
• Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Simplify onboarding and enhance CI/CD workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the platform and developer experience.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to align priorities and delivery.
• Communicate platform direction, progress, and priorities clearly.
• Balance competing demands across teams and domains.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities and modern platform engineering practices.
• Continuously optimise platform performance, cost, and user experience.

Skills

GitLab Ultimate

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Python

Bash

AI-enabled tools

Leadership

Communication

English

Tools

GitLab Ultimate

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Python

Bash

Job description

Overview

LeadCloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)

(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)

We’reKingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.That’sright,we’rebig, 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. Andthat’swhere you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from allwalks 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,locatedin 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 encouragenew 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:

• 30,000 - 38,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family

• Medicoversports card (Fit&Morepackage)

• 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 looking for an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer to lead a team responsible for building,operating, and evolving our Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) supporting ~1500 engineers.

The platform powers the full software delivery lifecycle and includes self-hosted tooling such as GitLab Ultimate, Nexus Repository, SonarQube and related developer productivity services.

This role blends technical leadership, people management, and platform strategy, ensuring high availability, scalability, and an outstanding developer experience.

Ifyou'relooking 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!

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers delivering cloud-based developer tooling.

• Set goals, priorities, and performance expectations while fostering a collaborative, ownership-driven culture.

• Support onboarding and career development.

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Internal Engineering Platform.

• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of GitLab Ultimate, Nexus Repository, SonarQube, and CI/CD tooling.

• Define platform standards, golden paths, and reusable components.

• Design scalable cloud solutions across AWS and GCP.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and support key technical decisions.

• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and platform engineering best practices.

• Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.

• Simplify onboarding and enhance CI/CD workflows.

• Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the platform and developer experience.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to align priorities and delivery.

• Communicate platform direction, progress, and priorities clearly.

• Balance competing demands across teams and domains.

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities and modern platform engineering practices.

• Continuously optimise platform performance, cost, and user experience.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience administering and configuring GitLab Ultimate(self-hosted).

• Hands-onexpertisewith Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Proven experience working with AWS and/or GCP.

• Experience with developer tooling ecosystems, including Jenkins, Nexus (or equivalent), and SonarQube (or equivalent).

• Strong scripting skills, particularly in Python and Bash.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer tools, such as code assistants and intelligent CI/CD capabilities.

• Proven people leadership and team management experience.

• Strong solution design and architectural thinking.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Ability to operate effectively within complex, large-scale engineering environments.

• Strategic mindset combined with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.

• Track record of improving platform reliability, developer productivity, and adoption of engineering standards.

• Focus on reducing software delivery lead times while maintaining high levelsof team engagement and retention.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).

Nice to have

• Experience running platforms for large-scale engineering organisations

• Experience in platform engineering

• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks

• Experience with observability and SRE practices

To get to know us better visit:

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Kingfisher plc