Senior Cloud Engineer

Kingfisher; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 268,000 - 368,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24,000 - 33,000 PLN gross per month on

Private medical healthcare (LUXMED)

Medicover sports card

Life insurance

Lunch break included

Training & Buddy programme

Wellbeing programme

Co-financing of monthly tickets

Home office option

Language courses / LinkedIn Learning

Employee referral programme

Job summary

Kingfisher plc in Kraków is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to build, manage, and enhance our AWS-based cloud capabilities with a strong focus on automation and delivery. This hands-on role requires mentoring the team and collaborating with delivery squads to improve platform reliability.

You will work with cross-functional teams to automate processes, maintain production pipelines, and align infrastructure strategies with product goals.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Engineer or similar role with mentorship experience.
• Strong CI/CD background and scripting in Python, Shell/Bash.
• Extensive Linux administration and cloud platform experience (AWS/Google Cloud).
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage, and enhance AWS/cloud capabilities with focus on automation and CD.
• Lead and consult with on-site teams to implement best practices.
• Share knowledge and raise operational maturity across the team.
• Oversee platform backlog, planning, and automation of processes.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure consistent IAAS/PAAS tooling standards.
• Maintain pipelines, production paths, and shared standards.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to align platform vision with infra strategy.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Mentorship

CI/CD

Python

Shell/Bash

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible/Puppet/Chef

Networking basics

English proficiency

Tools

GitLab Runners

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

Senior Cloud Engineer

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

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 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.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• 24,000 - 33,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• 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 a consultative approach to ensure best practices are implemented effectively, as well as serving as a technical mentor for the team.

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 as a Senior Cloud Engineer or in a related position, combined with a track record of providing technical mentorship and guidance to team members.
• 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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