Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - Tooling & DevEx

Kingfisher plc

Kraków

Hybrid

PLN 335,000 - 424,000

Full time

9 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Medicover Sports

Life insurance

Lunch break included

Training & Buddy

Wellbeing programme

Public transport tickets

Home office option

Language courses

LinkedIn Learning

Referral programme

Job summary

Kingfisher plc in Kraków is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer to lead a team building, operating, and evolving the Internal Engineering Platform supporting ~1500 engineers. You will manage cloud tooling, ensure high availability and developer experience.

The role covers AWS and GCP, Terraform, GitLab self-hosted, and CI/CD tooling; you will mentor engineers, drive platform strategy, and collaborate with security and product teams to reduce lead times.

Qualifications

Extensive experience leading cloud tooling teams.
Strong expertise in Terraform and IaC.
Hands-on with AWS and/or GCP.
Excellent English communication.

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.
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.
Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and support key technical decisions.
Communicate platform direction, progress, and priorities clearly.