Job description
Overview:
We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Paddington, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices in Southampton or Yeovil.
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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We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 80,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - 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 advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles. Want to apply as a job share or propose a way of working that isn’t the traditional 9am – 5.30pm, Monday through to Friday? We’re all ears!
What's the job?:
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer, who is able to deliver continuous quality software using DevOps practices and principles focused on an Infrastructure delivery model. This role will support the team to outputs of a vital Kingfisher platform capability. You will be required to have a wide section of skills along with a mature consultative approach. This will involve working with a broad team to ensure that the right practices are in. You will be expected to be actively pairing to share knowledge, key decision making when needed and enabling the delivery team’s progress around all aspects from individual growth, service improvements and future strategies
- You’ll be responsible for building, leading, supporting and improving these capabilities including all the normal DevOps type skills (automation, collaboration, continuous delivery etc) in our AWS and other future cloud services.
- The role requires a broad cross section of skills along with a strong consultative approach. You'll work with the team and consumers on-site to ensure that the right practices are in place and to take the lead on automating as far as possible
- You will be responsible for platform backlog grooming and planning and automation of all aspects. You will also be responsible for the knowledge sharing with wider team as well as implementation and upkeep of common IAAS, PAAS & tooling capabilities.
- Implementing common pipelines and paths to production. You'll be working with the product owner and scrum masters to build and communicate a cohesive platform vision in accordance with KF infrastructure strategies and vendors or Open Source technology as required.
- You'll have a background utilising DevOps practices to enable Continuous Delivery, you'll be open to pair programming and working closely with Developers in multi-functional teams. Scripting language or coding experience (including Powershell, Python, Shell, Bash) is key.
- A strong technical background in build, release and environments, with experience of CI tools like Gitlab Runners, Jenkins. You'll have a solid understanding of Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu and CentOS) and Windows, good knowledge of Private and Public Cloud Capabilities (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).
- Experience in Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation as well as strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools including Ansible, Puppet
- With proven ability craft sign 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).
- A strong 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 with and supporting the security administration process and relevant security domain leads, within a cloud/dev-ops context.
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’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office. Your office location? This person will be UK based with our Head Office in Paddington, or we could explore the option of being based in one of our other retail banners head offices in Southampton or Yeovil.
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.
#li-bn1 #LI-HYBRID
Kingfisher
www.kingfisher.com
London, United Kingdom
Thierry Garnier
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Home Furniture & Housewares Stores
1980