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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Locations RO-Cluj
Entity
Group Technology
ID
2026-148285
Category
Digital IT
Type
Full Time
Contract
Permanent
Hours Per Week
40

Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

 

 (Hybrid, Cluj, Romania)

 

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 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.

 

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:  

    • Annual performance bonus
    • Employee referral bonus
    • Private medical coverage (Regina Maria – Priority Plan)
    • Option to extend coverage to your spouse or children at no extra cost
    • Life insurance (Metropolitan Life)
    • Eyeglasses vouchers
    • 7Card fitness membership (co-funded)
    • Access to LinkedIn Learning, LEO Learning, and Bookster
    • Fresh fruit bar and premium coffee
    • Modern, collaborative workspace
    • Hybrid work model
    • Flexible working schedule
    • 21 days of annual leave + extra days based on tenure (up to 25 days)
    • Additional days off when public holidays fall on weekends
    • Paid leave for special life events
    • Meal vouchers
    • Gift vouchers (up to 4 per year), offered for occasions like Christmas, Easter, March 8th, and June 1st

What's the job?

Responsibilities: 

 

  • Feel empowered and autonomous to provide technical thought leadership
  • Drive and coordinate team’s engagements o technical level
  • Drive team’s roadmap in cooperation with Principal Engineers and Squad Lead
  • Can own your work end-to-end from inception, to writing acceptance criteria, to production ready Taking an MVP first approach whilst adhering to best practice where possible and ensuring all aspects of quality are taken into consideration
  • Improving the observability of Kingfisher’s products with a customer focused lens to increase the confidence in the ability to pinpoint and resolve issues
  • Work with Product squads as an embedded SRE to drive automation and reduce toil  
  • Work closely with Incident Management and Product squads to ensure appropriate root cause analysis is performed with actionable outcomes
  • Provide SRE representation in blameless post-mortems following P1/P2 incidents and ensure outcomes are followed through to resolution
  • Write clear and descriptive technical documentation with the end-user in mind 
  • Willing to participate in an on-call rota providing SRE support during Major Incidents 
  • Work with Product squads to establish SLI’s / SLO’s and participate in monthly reviews 
  • Collaborate with the wider technology teams in a DevOps fashion to help to bridge the gap with product squads (Security, APM, Networks, etc.) 
  • Creation and ownership of common standards and practices

What you'll bring

Required Skills & Experience: 

 

  • Effective communication skills to be able to productively participate in discussion, understand customer’s requirements and clearly articulate yourself when presenting solutions. 
  • Experience in big scale
  • Understanding of SRE principles 
  • Strong problem-solving skills 
  • A willingness to learn and continuously improve by working with new tools and technologies. 
  • CI/CD Platforms – GitLab (preferred), GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.  
  • Any one major cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure  
  • DevOps mindset 
  • Familiarity with modern tooling – e.g. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Chart, Service Mesh, etc.  
  • Scripting Languages – e.g. Javascript, Typescript, Bash, Python, Groovy, etc.  
  • Programming Languages – e.g. Java, NodeJS, Go, etc. 
  • Enterprise Observability Tools – e.g. Datadog or Dynatrace (preferred), Grafana, etc.  
  • Take a test-driven development approach when building capabilities. 
  • Understanding of Agile development methodologies and events  

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At Kingfisher we value having a diverse workforce and representing the communities that we serve, and want to ensure that all employees, future employees, and applicants to all Kingfisher companies are treated equally.

If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you make an application or are applying for a UK based position and would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please contact us at kingfisher.recruitment@kingfisher.com

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