Data Cloud Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026.
Overview
We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.
Join us as a Data Cloud Engineer where you'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of our data transformation platforms. You'll be responsible for maintaining platform uptime, delivering stakeholder-driven enhancements, and building scalable, secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines to support infrastructure deployments.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact within a collaborative, fast-paced environment focused on innovation and operational excellence.
What's the job?
- Working as part of a team that is responsible for the uptime of data transformation platforms, as well any feature requests that are being fed in by our stakeholders
- Building scalable and reliable Gitlab CICD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
- Identifying areas for improvement in the current set-up, suggesting ideas to make it more stable and secure
- Working in collaboration with data engineers, developers, and security teams; documenting standards and mentoring junior team members
- Maintaining up-to-date documentation for the platform, as well as thoroughly documenting and showcasing any new features built
- Participating in OOH support call-out rota
What you'll bring
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery, Dataproc, Databricks and data integration workflows
- Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in GCP
- Solid understanding of GCP networking (VPCs, firewall rules, Cloud VPN, Private Service Connect, DNS, Load Balancing)
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, or equivalent DevOps tooling
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, or similar tools
- Experience with scripting (Bash, Python, or PowerShell)
- Solid understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, service accounts, Secret Manager, organization policies).
- Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills
- Previous experience in Data Platform teams highly preferred
How We Work We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average within our Engineering team - 20% of your time involving in-person collaboration.
We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.
What We Offer An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encourage new ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace 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.
Diversity & Inclusion Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.
Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.