Lead Cloud Engineer

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 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. 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: 

• Up to 34,000 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 

About the role

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering the technical vision of our platform infrastructure. You’ll provide day-to-day technical leadership, drive automation, and support the design and maintenance of scalable, cloud-native solutions.

Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders, you'll help define standards, streamline delivery pipelines, and promote best practices across infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud operations. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on enabling secure, reliable, and efficient delivery at scale.

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!   

Responsibilities

• Provide daily technical leadership, guiding teams in architectural decisions and fostering innovation.

• Participate in grooming and planning the platform backlog, ensuring tasks are well-prioritized and aligned with business goals.

• Lead efforts to automate technical processes, improving efficiency and reducing manual work.

• Share knowledge and best practices with teams, Kingfisher IT, and external partners to promote collaboration and learning.

• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of shared IAAS, PAAS, and tooling capabilities, ensuring they meet business needs.

• Design and deliver standardized pipelines and production workflows to streamline deployments.

• Create and maintain common standards and practices to ensure consistency and quality across technical work.

• Work with product owners, engineering squad lead and scrum masters to align the platform vision with the infrastructure strategy.

• Evaluate and collaborate with vendors and open-source technologies to enhance the platform.

• Continuously identify and implement automation opportunities to improve processes and speed up delivery.

Skills and Experience

• Strong background in DevOps practices with hands-on experience in Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies, ensuring streamlined and efficient development and deployment processes.

• Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure on public cloud platforms, with a preference for AWS, and familiarity with GCP and/or Azure

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment and understanding.

• Skilled in shaping and delivering a unified vision for teams, motivating them to work towards common objectives and achieve excellence in their performance.

• Demonstrates strong problem-solving abilities with a clear thought process, helping teams navigate challenges and make informed decisions.

• In-depth technical knowledge of key build, release, and environment management tools, including experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab Runners and Jenkins.

• Proven experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) / Developer Portals such as Backstage.io or similar solutions.

• Experience integrating various developer tools and services (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, security scanning) into a unified developer portal

• Ability to champion developer experience (DevEx) and drive adoption of IDP initiatives across engineering teams

• Experience in defining and implementing "platform as a product" strategies for internal developer tools.

• Proficiency in frontend programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js) is a strong plus, particularly for customizing and extending internal developer platforms (IDPs/Backstage.io)

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)