Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)
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The project focuses on building and evolving the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) supporting ~1500 engineers. Key technologies are GitLab Ultimate (self-hosted), Nexus, SonarQube, CI/CD and cloud platforms AWS and GCP; Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, scripting in Python and Bash. Responsibilities include leading a team, owning platform strategy and roadmap, ensuring reliability, scalability and security of tooling, defining standards and golden paths, automating onboarding and CI/CD, optimizing cost and performance, and driving adoption of AI-enabled capabilities. Salary: 30 000 - 38 000 PLN gross/month.

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Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)

Company: Kingfisher

from: 27 October 2026
to: 26 November 2026
30 000 - 38 000 złgross/ mth.contract of employment (full-time)
Offer parameters
level:expert
working mode:remote • hybrid
Kraków, Podgórze
Kraków, PodgórzeWielicka 28View on map

Requirements

Expected technologies

GitLab
Terraform
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Python
Bash
Jenkins

Our 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).

Optional

  • Experience running platforms for large-scale engineering organisations
  • Experience in platform engineering
  • Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks
  • Experience with observability and SRE practices

Your 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.

About the project

We are looking for an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer to lead a team responsible for building, operating, and evolving our Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) supporting ~1500 engineers.
The platform powers the full software delivery lifecycle and includes self-hosted tooling such as GitLab Ultimate, Nexus Repository, SonarQube and related developer productivity services.
This role blends technical leadership, people management, and platform strategy, ensuring high availability, scalability, and an outstanding developer experience.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

you focus on a single project at a timeyou have influence on the technological solutions appliedyou have influence on the productyou focus on product developmentagile

Team members

backend developertechnical leaderarchitectdevOpsproject manager

This is how we work on a project

  • code review
  • design patterns
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • DevOps
  • performance tests
  • testing environments
Company

What we offer

  • 30,000 - 38,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
  • Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) 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

Development opportunities we offer

  • technical knowledge exchange within the company
  • time for development of your ideas

Benefits

  • sharing the costs of sports activities
  • private medical care
  • sharing the costs of foreign language classes
  • sharing the costs of professional training & courses
  • life insurance
  • integration events
  • dental care
  • no dress code

Recruitment stages

  • 1.
    Send in your application
  • 2.
    Talent Acquisition team will then review your application
  • 3.
    You’ll have a telephone interview/one to one conversation
  • 4.
    You’ll be invited to a face to face or virtual interview
  • 5.
    Recruiter will be in touch with feedback and next steps

Kingfisher

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.
Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)
30k–38k zł / mth. (CoE)
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