Data Cloud Engineer

Company: Kingfisher
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Data Cloud Engineer, you ensure the reliability and performance of Kingfisher’s data transformation platforms while enabling scalable, secure infrastructure deployments. You work with cross-functional teams to implement stakeholder-driven enhancements and maintain platform uptime. The role blends cloud engineering, IaC, and CI/CD to support data initiatives at scale in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You will shape platform stability and security, contributing to operational excellence and innovative data solutions.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive benefits package
  • hybrid working model
  • focus on flexibility and balance
  • opportunities to grow your career
  • inclusive environment
  • diversity and inclusion commitment

Responsibilities

  • Ensure uptime and reliability of data transformation platforms
  • Build scalable, secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
  • Identify improvement opportunities to enhance stability and security
  • Collaborate with data engineers, developers, and security teams; document standards and mentor juniors
  • Maintain up-to-date platform documentation and showcase new features
  • Participate in OOH (out-of-hours) support rota

Key requirements

  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including BigQuery, Dataproc, Databricks
  • Terraform IaC experience in GCP
  • Solid understanding of GCP networking (VPCs, firewall rules, VPN, Private Service Connect, DNS, Load Balancing)
  • Experience building/managing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy or equivalent
  • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting (Cloud Monitoring/Logging)
  • Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or PowerShell)
  • Understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, service accounts, Secret Manager, org policies)
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration
  • Previous experience in Data Platform teams preferred
  • Excellent communication
  • Collaboration
  • Documentation
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • BigQuery
  • Dataproc

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Posted: October 1st, 2026