Our Story
The Woolworths Group has been focused on the importance of digital and what we need to do to better serve our customers through creating shopping experiences that are personalised, seamless, and convenient. Enter WooliesX. WooliesX is the combination of our digital businesses working in collaboration together to capitalise on the communities of professionals we have at Woolworths. We create new teams, with new practices, and a modern dynamic engineering culture by investing in the right people and resources to make it possible. We’re proud of the work we do and want to be known for delivering exceptional client experiences with great work-life balance.
WooliesX is structured by communities of capabilities, chapters, which bring different skills into our execution teams, squads. The focus within our chapters is to develop strategies, skills, and capabilities through training and conversations. Our squads focus on specific business benefits and the creation of solutions to capitalise on opportunities within their business areas.
Where we play
WooliesX Hub is 2 minutes walk from Central station and walking distance from all the cafes and restaurants that Surry Hills has to offer. The brand new sites have been designed to support flexible working with different spaces for activities such as collaboration, brainstorming, or relaxing.
With flexible working at our core, our teams have the option to work from home, out of our Surry Hills offices, or our corporate head office in Bella Vista.
What we are looking for
Our Cloud, Reliability & Engineering Platform Enablement chapter brings together engineers from all over the world and across a variety of businesses to develop the hosting and delivery strategy for WooliesX. We understand that individuals bring rich perspectives which sometimes hide behind quiet personalities. Leaders within the chapter help to ensure all voices are heard. This is accomplished through mentorship, coaching, and teaching those within the chapter as well as our squads.
The landscape of technology within WooliesX is a pairing between exciting technologies and opportunities to improve our customer connections and experiences. Our chapter is driving innovation in the underlying platforms used by many business units so that we can provide our customers with an amazing experience.
A leader in this space aims to balance current operations with transitioning technologies. This includes planning and reviewing changes to the architecture while working with teams to evangelise and coordinate solution roll out. The investments in the data and application hosting spaces enable squads to focus more on the customer value proposition while gaining resiliency and efficiency through collaboration.
Overview of the Role
Reporting to the Technology Lead for Cloud, Reliability & Platform Engineering, you will play a key role within a leading digital organisation to facilitate the delivery of critical applications to our customers. Working with engineers from various practices, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and stability of our applications by being involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
This is a role for a technologist with a good background in software platform engineering who can apply their experience and knowledge to develop highly scalable cloud services. In this role you will have the opportunity to sharpen these skills while starting to demonstrate your ability to evangelise and develop new capabilities that are critical to the organisation’s technology strategy.
Chapter Responsibilities
1. Learn and Improve your skills through dedicated chapter time
2. Share your experiences within your chapter and across the Engineering practice
3. Generate excitement for technologies that aim to change the future
4. Evangelise implementations across the organisation where beneficial
Squad Responsibilities
5. Deliver towards a squad’s roadmap
6. Work closely with Engineers to design, build, deploy, manage and operate environments
7. Bring the best practices from across the Engineering practice into the delivery cycle
8. Evaluate all platform and service consumption to optimise costs
Soft Skills
9. Good demonstrable experience working technical delivery teams up to 10+ people
10. Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure and integration across enterprise platforms.
11. Sound and proven experience in both agile and project-based execution
12. Ability to switch context between multiple technologies
13. Good communication (written and verbal), collaboration and influencing skills to work with other engineers and achieve agreed deliverables.
We expect strong experience with
14. DevSecOps
15. Cloud Infrastructure Development and Management
16. Observability Platforms
We expect some experience with
17. Relational & Document Databases
18. Service Integration Patterns
19. Automated Testing Practices
We expect good experience with a subset of technologies in our current stack, including -
20. Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
21. Code - Powershell, Bash, C#, .NET Core, NodeJS, GoLang
22. Databases - Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, CosmosDB, PostgreSQL
23. CI - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins
24. Infrastructure - Kubernetes (AKS / GKE), Terraform
25. Observability - App Insights, Dynatrace, Azure Log Analytics, Google Cloud Monitoring
Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company