The Role
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 24,000 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
If you're looking to level up your networking career and be part of something big, this is your chance! As a Network Engineer at Foodstuffs North Island, you’ll join a future-focused, high-energy IT Operations team that keeps our massive network of stores, offices, and supply chain sites connected and running smoothly. You'll dive into a variety of real-world challenges—supporting SDWAN solutions, investigating tricky issues, and helping roll out new tech across the business.
With support from experienced engineers and exposure to cutting-edge tools, you’ll be hands-on from day one—tuning performance, boosting reliability, and making sure our networks are ready for anything. No two days are the same, and you’ll get plenty of opportunities to stretch your skills, make an impact, and grow your career in a team that’s all about collaboration, curiosity, and doing great work.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Keeping our WAN and remote site networks humming—resilient, available, and high performing.
- Jumping into projects, from SDWAN rollouts to helping improve tools, systems, and ways of working.
- Troubleshooting issues like a pro, supporting smooth incident resolution and great customer comms.
- Helping monitor and report on network health so we can make smart, data-driven decisions.
- Working with awesome people—internal teams, vendors, and partners—to keep everything running at its best.
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 36free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation scheme
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About you
You’ve made a strong start in your networking career, and now you’re hungry for more—more learning, more challenges, and more chances to shine. With 1–2 years of hands-on experience under your belt, you know your way around WANs, protocols, and performance tools, and you’re ready to take things to the next level. You're curious, energetic, and always up for a good puzzle—especially when it means making things work better, faster, or smarter.
You’re great with people, confident sharing ideas, and not afraid to ask questions. Whether you're knee-deep in packet captures or chatting with stakeholders, you bring enthusiasm and a sense of ownership to everything you do. If you're the kind of person who’s always looking at what’s possible and ready to roll up your sleeves—we want you on our team.
You’ll bring with you:
- 3-4 years’ experience in a network engineering or support role, ideally in a fast-moving or multi-site environment.
- A good working knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, SDWAN, or similar tools and technologies.
- A sharp troubleshooting mindset—you love getting to the bottom of issues and fixing them fast.
- Confident communication skills and a collaborative, team-first attitude.
- A curious, can-do spirit—you're always learning, improving, and looking ahead to what’s next.
- Hands-on experience with vendors and technologies such as Fortinet, Aruba, Cisco, Arista, Citrix, Spine-Leaf topologies, and NetScalers.
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.
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The Company
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.
