Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”.
Te Tūranga – About the role
At Foodstuffs, we’re looking for a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in ensuring the availability, performance, security, and reliability of our cloud platforms and infrastructure. Working within our Digital Operations team, you'll design, build, and support modern DevOps capabilities across cloud environments, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automation.
You'll collaborate with engineers, architects, and security teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions, drive DevSecOps best practices, and continuously improve our platforms and operational excellence in an Agile environment.
What you’ll do
Design, build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using modern DevSecOps practices to create scalable, secure and resilient platforms.
Develop, optimise and support CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable deployments and quickly resolving issues that impact delivery.
Automate operational processes to improve efficiency, consistency and system reliability while reducing manual effort.
Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure and platform incidents, working collaboratively across engineering teams to restore services and prevent repeat occurrences.
Contribute to the development of DevSecOps standards, operational documentation and best practices while sharing knowledge and mentoring teammates.
Help ensure our business-critical platforms remain secure, resilient and available 24x7, supporting the technology that keeps our stores, distribution centres and digital services running every day.
Participate in a rotating on-call roster to support critical business systems.
Helping foster a positive, collaborative culture while living the Foodstuffs values every day.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
Free carparking, we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 EV plugs
Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday
Inhouse learning and development courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes)
He kōrero mōu - About you
3+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash/Python).
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerised applications.
Proven experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or Open Telemetry.
Knowledge of Git version control and Agile delivery practices.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with experience working in Agile teams.
Why Join Foodies?
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!
Skills Required
- 3+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash/Python)
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerised applications
- Proven experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Knowledge of Git version control and Agile delivery practices
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
What We Do
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores. We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington. Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
