Principal Engineer - DevEx and SRE

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.

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!

Working in the Cloud Platforms and SRE Chapter, this role will be setting the technical direction for the Cloud Platform teams across our Developer Experience and SRE squads.

• Leadership: you will be a transformational leader, who exerts influence over multiple squads, increasing their effectiveness by sharing expert knowledge and experience. A critical thinker able to coach and mentor other specialists with a passion for continuous improvement towards engineering excellence.
• Delivery: Drives significant technology initiatives end-to-end to ensure customer outcomes are met. Collaborates with architects and acts as Product Owner to craft roadmaps and steer the long‑range goals.
• Engineering Excellence: Drives design and implementation of robust and durable software solutions which solve business‑critical problems in a fast‑paced environment, embedding engineering best practice in collaboration with all Principal Engineers.
• Collaboration: Fosters a collaborative environment and offers mentorship on effective communication within the engineering team.
• Relationship Management: Builds cohesive and positive relationships with stakeholders within and beyond engineering.
• Self‑Management: Role models how to successfully manage skills and personal development, and promotes a culture of continuous learning.
• Innovation: Drives a culture of responsible innovation and experimentation, providing perspectives on leading industry tools and trends and recommendations on new and emerging technologies.

• High technical skills and understanding of the engineering practices that will allow you to come up with solutions for engineers that solve their day‑to‑day workflow problems
• Excellent understanding of SRE and Developer Experience practices and the ability to apply them in an organisation to improve the reliability and engineering workflow posture
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and the ability to take part in code reviews
• Ability to lead the creation of robust, functional solutions and high‑quality code, partnering with numerous stakeholders.
• Ability to lead, encourage and empower engineers to consistently deliver value.

Be Customer Focused –
constantly improving our customers’ experience

• I listen to my customers
• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human – acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing

Be Curious – thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile – working with trust, pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive – acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship
• I have self‑awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable – championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

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…