Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)

About the Position

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. Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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.

Requirements

• Strong experience administering and configuring GitLab Ultimate (self-hosted).
• Hands-on expertise with 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 levels of 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

We Offer

• Competitive salary: 30,000 - 38,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dental care) 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 Company

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?

Application Process

1. Application: Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.
2. Review: A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application and let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.
3. Interview 1: You’ll then have a telephone interview/one to one conversation with a recruiter.
4. Interview 2: As you progress, you’ll be invited to attend a face to face or virtual interview.
5. Feedback: Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!

Ready to get started?

Apply now and help us to Power the Possible.