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Senior SRE (Platform & Infratstructure)

Req ID
68080
Date posted
03-Feb-2026
Brand
Woolworths Group
Team
Accelerated Digital Capabilities
Employment type
Full-time
Location
New South Wales, 2010



  • Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
  • Be part of an incredible team of Platform and Site Reliability Engineers 
  • Permanent role with a hybrid working model

 

We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that 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 that reflects the diverse communities we serve. 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.

 


What you’ll do

The Senior SRE is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role reporting to the Engineering Manager. Based in our Brisbane, Sydney, or Melbourne hubs (3 days in-office), you are the technical backbone of our cloud operations. We aren't looking for a strategist who just draws diagrams; we need a veteran engineer who can build resilient systems with Terraform, orchestrate AKS at scale, and lead the charge during critical production incidents.


You will own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our Azure platform. This is a role for an engineer who loves to solve complex puzzles and hates manual "toil."


  • Hands-on Platform Engineering: Manage and scale our Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. You'll handle everything from networking and ingress to cluster upgrades and security hardening.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Write, test, and maintain production-grade Terraform modules to ensure our infrastructure is fully automated, versioned, and reproducible.
  • Deep-Dive Troubleshooting: Act as the "Level 3" escalation point for the most complex system failures. You’ll use Dynatrace to dig into distributed traces, memory leaks, and network bottlenecks to find the root cause.
  • Incident Management Lead: Lead the response for high-priority incidents. You’ll keep a cool head under pressure, coordinate the technical recovery, and ensure we learn from every outage through deep-dive post-mortems.
  • Observability Mastery: Implement and fine-tune monitoring, logging, and alerting using Dynatrace to ensure we have "glass-box" visibility into every microservice.
  • Operational Excellence: Identify manual processes and replace them with automated tooling (Python, Bash, or Go) to improve the developer experience and system stability.

 


What You’ll Bring

You'll have spent 8–10+ years in the trenches of cloud-native environments and possess the "SRE mindset."

  • Kubernetes Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with AKS/K8s. You should be comfortable debugging pods, nodes, and networking layers. CKA or CKAD certification is a must.
  • Azure Heavyweight: Extensive experience navigating the Azure ecosystem (Networking, IAM, Storage, and Security).
  • Terraform Specialist: Proven ability to manage complex, multi-environment infrastructure through Terraform.
  • APM/Observability Pro: Advanced skills in Dynatrace (or similar tools like Datadog/New Relic) for proactive performance tuning and incident forensics.
  • Incident Command Experience: A track record of leading major incident responses and managing stakeholder communication during "War Room" scenarios.
  • Coding Proficiency: Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Go, or Bash) to build internal tools and automate infrastructure tasks.
  • Mentorship through Doing: You enjoy upskilling other engineers by pair-programming and leading by example in the codebase.

 


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.