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Sector: Construction and Building Services
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Overview
We're Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama, and Koctas to life. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.
At Kingfisher, we are committed to ensuring that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants 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, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil.
What's the job
* Be responsible for building, operating, and improving the central cloud platforms through the environment life cycle to production, which is to be consumed by engineering and business teams. This involves networking, identity, security, and other enabling features such as Backup and DR service.
* Guide product teams on cloud technologies and ways of working. Advising on the correct way of building applications in the cloud using Well Architected Pillars.
* Automation is key and is strongly implemented through all parts of the services as much as possible; pipelines, to setting up monitoring and alerting.
* Collaborative approach to enhance and enrich the platform by working with the Tech Leads, Stakeholders, and Business Leaders. Investigating new technologies, patterns, and approaches and provide recommendations to roadmap items.
* Take part in Agile methodology in either Scrum or Kanban. Support the team by contributing your opinions, successes, and feedback.
What you'll bring
* Good knowledge of cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) with a focus on networking, security, and writing Infrastructure as Code.
* A strong technical background in using development tools such as Git, Terraform, GitLab CI, etc.
* Problem-solving mindset, with the ability to investigate issues and apply fixes throughout the development lifecycle.
* Experience in utilizing Cloud Engineering practices to enable Continuous Delivery.
* Ability to communicate efficiently when working with vendors, developers, and business teams.
Desirable experience and knowledge
* Experience in security concepts and tools.
* Understanding of Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu).
* Knowledge of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, DNS, as well as technologies like Palo Alto and F5.
* Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
* Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for collaboration and knowledge sharing.
* Automation skills in testing, scripting (Bash/Python), pipelines, and utilities.
* Experience in monitoring and alerting.
Company Values
Be Customer Focused: constantly improving our customers' experience.
Be Human: leading with purpose, humanity, and care.
Be Curious: thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious.
Be Agile: building trust and empowering people to work with agility.
Be Inclusive: inspiring diverse teams to achieve together.
Be Accountable: owning the plan, delivering results and growth.
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and 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 also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
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