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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.\nJoin 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.\nThis is an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact within a collaborative, fast-paced environment focused on innovation and operational excellence.\nWhat's the job?\nWorking 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\nBuilding scalable and reliable Gitlab CICD pipelines for infrastructure deployments\nIdentifying areas for improvement in the current set-up, suggesting ideas to make it more stable and secure\nWorking in collaboration with data engineers, developers, and security teams; documenting standards and mentoring junior team members\nMaintaining up-to-date documentation for the platform, as well as thoroughly documenting and showcasing any new features built\nParticipating in OOH support call-out rota\nWhat you'll bring\nStrong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery, Dataproc, Databricks and data integration workflows\nProficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in GCP\nSolid understanding of GCP networking (VPCs, firewall rules, Cloud VPN, Private Service Connect, DNS, Load Balancing)\nExperience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, or equivalent DevOps tooling\nFamiliarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, or similar tools\nExperience with scripting (Bash, Python, or PowerShell)\nSolid understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, service accounts, Secret Manager, organization policies).\nExcellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills\nPrevious experience in Data Platform teams highly preferred\nHow 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.\nWe value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet 100% of the requirements.\nWhat 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\nWe also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.\nDiversity & 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.\nInterested? 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