Woolworths

• Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in NZ
• An exciting career as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our Team Members
• Ponsonby (Auckland) based with a hybrid working model

We are Woolworths Group | Ko Woolworths Tātou 

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.

What you’ll do | Hei mahi

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 | Hei koha 

Experience with the following Tech Stack

• Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Good understanding of cloud based Microservices patterns and standards
• Workload optimisation for performance, cost, security
• Application and Hosting Security
• DevSecOps
• 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
• CI - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins
• Infrastructure - Kubernetes (AKS / GKE)
• Apigee - APIGateway
• Observability - App Insights, Dynatrace, Azure Log Analytics, Google Cloud Monitoring
• Pager Duty
• Cloud Finops
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Cloud Tenancy Models

What you’ll experience | Ngā Huanga

Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

• A commitment to flexibility through a hybrid working model which combines time spent at a support office or hub and time working from home, supporting both in-person connection and balancing the flexibility that remote working provides for our teams
• High-impact role supporting our teams who enrich our communities. 
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.  
• 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.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group | No Woolworths tātou

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. 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.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.