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
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
Act as a senior voice for reliability, observability and operational excellence
Define and implement SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
Improve observability with a focus on customer impact and actionable alerting
Partner with teams to reduce toil, automate operations and improve production readiness
Support incident management and post-mortems, ensuring actions are followed through
Help design resilient, scalable systems in cloud-native environments
Contribute to shared standards, tooling and SRE practices
Participate in on-call for major incidents
What you'll bring
Required Skills & Experience
Strong experience with SRE principles (SLOs, observability, incident response, automation)
Experience operating systems at scale in cloud environments
Solid understanding of distributed systems and reliability trade-offs
Hands-on experience with:
- Cloud: AWS / GCP / Azure
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- IaC: Terraform
- CI/CD: GitLab (preferred), GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Observability: Datadog
Scripting or programming skills (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, JavaScript)
Strong problem-solving and communication skills
DevOps mindset with focus on ownership and continuous improvement
Our Behaviours
At Kingfisher, we are united by our 6 core behaviours
Testimonials
Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.
Training & Development
There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.
Why Kingfisher
We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?
Application Process
What to expect from our application process...
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Step 1: Application
Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.
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Step 2: Review
A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.
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Step 3: Interview 1
You’ll then have a telephone interview/one to one conversation with a recruiter.
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Step 4: Interview 2
As you progress, you’ll be invited to attend a face to face or virtual interview.
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Step 5: Feedback
Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!
Ready to get started?