Woolworths

• Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
• An exciting career as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our Team Members
• Norwest/Surry Hills (Sydney) based with a hybrid working model

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Welcome to WDigital

Part of the Group Technology team within Australia's largest retailers, WDigital aims to bring the best of Woolworths Group to our customers.

We're an innovation business that brings together the brightest minds in e-commerce, technology, media, and data to transform how people live and shop. With an industry-leading technology team backed by analytics, we're resourceful and willing to experiment. Our agile teams are empowered to innovate and deliver an excellent experience for our customers - whether they shop in-store or online.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will play a key role as a Senior Platform Engineer to design, develop and extend a consistent, best practices framework of common capabilities for application development and deployment that provides a secure, high-quality, and well-governed foundation.

This is a role for a technologist with a strong background in Infrastructure engineering who can apply their experience and knowledge to influence decisions and develop highly scalable and reliable service patterns. In this role you will have the opportunity to sharpen these skills while evangelising and developing new capabilities that are critical to the organisation’s technology strategy.

• Work with the Engineering Manager to Define and drive a squad’s roadmap
• Work closely with the Engineer Manager, Architects and other Engineers to align on patterns and standards
• Coach and assist new team members to uplift capability and spread domain knowledge
• Bring the best practices from across the Engineering practice into the delivery cycle
• Evaluate all platform and service consumption to optimise costs
• Support engineering teams in the adaptability and usage of the framework

What you’ll bring 

Experience with the following Tech Stack

• Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Good understanding of cloud based Microservices patterns and standards
• API Governance including GraphQL Schema
• API Security and Authentication
  • API Tokens, JWT, WAF, CDN, Bot Management
  • Observability Platforms
  • GitHub and Azure DevOps

 Specific experience which align with current state

• Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Code - Powershell, Bash, GoLang
• Expertise in Terraform
• CICD - Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Infrastructure - Kubernetes (AKS / GKE)
• APIGateway - Apigee
• GraphQL Gateway - Apollo GraphOS
• CDN/WAF/Bot Management - Akamai
• Observability - App Insights, Dynatrace, Google Cloud Monitoring
• Pager Duty
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Cloud Tenancy Models
• Proven experience developing application development and deployment frameworks.

What you’ll Experience

• Team Discounts - Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Wellness - Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families. 

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.