Head of Cloud Platforms and Reliability

Kingfisher plc
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. 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, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you.

What’s the job?

The Head of Platform Engineering will ensure cloud infrastructure is highly available, reliable, performs, and is built with security in each layer; from the application to the infrastructure it sits on. You will drive the business forward and push the boundaries of what technology can do now and what it can do in the future.

With a cloud-first strategy, you will build a model that enables all parts of the business to demonstrate the cloud infrastructure you build continuously and automatically. You need to make sure you support the needs of partners in terms of scalability, security, and capacity planning.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

Understanding and delivering site reliability is essential for the role. Making sure the products we build are production-ready so that inter-service dependencies are understood, monitoring and operational support are in place, and performance in terms of availability, latency, and efficiency. The reliability of a product operating in production is key as we live in a 24-hour online world.

You will need to build an effective DevSecOps capability by pushing security into the entire product life cycle and raising awareness across the Kingfisher estate on cybersecurity and mitigations and controls. Understanding and using the right security tools, enabling compliance and best practice is a fundamental requirement.

A key responsibility is building the right development tooling to enable our development teams to deliver quickly. Creating pipelines and using automation through infrastructure as code will be crucial to getting working software released quickly and safely.

Whilst building a DevOps culture you need to empower the wider business in using cloud technologies and services. Mentoring and coaching teams is vital as well as technical leadership.

What you’ll bring

• Required Skills & Experience:
• To succeed, any applicant must demonstrate high technical knowledge in software and systems, be able to find consensus and communicate confidently, and understand detail but also the bigger picture.
• Being proficient in cloud technology and services to always ensure we are choosing the right approach and driving value and pace for the business.
• Accountability for integration with other domains to deliver products that span domains and ensure benefits from economies of scale and shared knowledge and innovation.
• Working across both agile and waterfall environments, you will deliver rapid and responsive solutions. Your creativity will be encouraged at every turn.
• Ability to lead, empower, and encourage a multi-site team of people to deliver consistently outstanding performance.
• Proven track record of guiding projects through sophisticated organisations with both legacy and future-facing technology and aggressive goals.
• Ensure future success by continuously learning and dealing with strategic or operational risks

Kingfisher Leadership Behaviours

• Be Customer Focused – Constantly improving our customers’ experience.
• Be Human – Leading with purpose, humanity, and care.
• Be Curious – Thriving on learning, thinking beyond the obvious
• Be Agile – Building trust and empowering people to act 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 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. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

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.