Associate Cloud Engineer

**Associate Cloud Engineer

(Hybrid - Cluj)
Who we are and what we create?**
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 Cluj. 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.

About The Role
As a Associate Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in managing containerized and virtual machine workloads across multiple cloud platforms. Your primary objectives will be to ensure the high availability of our platform and the efficient placement of workloads and compute resources. You will be responsible for maintaining cloud infrastructure, optimizing resource allocation, and implementing disaster recovery strategies.

You will collaborate closely with development teams to enhance infrastructure processes, drive automation, and improve service performance.

What's the job?

• Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters and other container platforms.
• Provision and optimize VMs in the cloud, including support for legacy workloads (e.g., CSS VMs).
• Deploy and oversee end-to-end platform services, including cloud caching solutions.
• Monitor cloud resource utilization and implement autoscaling and load balancing strategies.
• Design and implement HA and DR strategies for critical applications, ensuring reliability and continuity.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure consistent implementation of IAAS, PAAS, and tooling standards.
• Work closely with development teams to enhance infrastructure processes and DevOps pipelines.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience in DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD automation, configuration management, and release engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, monitoring, and securing clusters in production environments.
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, AWS and GCP (nice to have), with hands-on experience in provisioning, networking, security, and cost optimization.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform or CloudFormation, to automate and manage infrastructure at scale.
• Strong background in CI/CD pipeline design and optimization, with hands-on experience using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins.
• Experience in observability and monitoring, with familiarity in tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Dynatrace to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems and support teams in making informed infrastructure decisions.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)