Ko Waimātou – 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
In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of DevSecOps innovation, championing productivity through cutting-edge automation and streamlined workflows.
You’ll help shape our technical direction by establishing reusable frameworks, guiding squads as a trusted advisor, and ensuring our engineering designs align with enterprise architecture and security standards.
As a senior technical authority, you’ll mentor talented engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to solve complex challenges, all while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence and driving the development and adoption of secure engineering standards and best practices across our organization
If you’re passionate about setting the standard for secure, high-velocity engineering and making a lasting impact, we want to hear from you!
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and Enforce Engineering Standards: A key role in the creation and adoption of secure engineering standards, governance policies, best practices, and alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance frameworks.
- Drive Secure & Efficient DevSecOps Practices: Champion productivity by streamlining workflows, automating tasks, and optimizing tools to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient solution delivery.
- Establish Reusable Frameworks & Continuous Improvement: Develop and maintain reusable frameworks, reference implementations, and continuously assess and improve engineering processes and tooling using feedback and metrics.
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide deep technical guidance, mentorship, and strategic advice across teams, leading communities of practice and influencing engineering decisions and direction.
- Align Engineering & Architectural Design: Translate architectural designs into actionable implementation plans, review technical designs, and ensure engineering delivery aligns with organizational standards and vision.
- Collaboration & Representation: Collaborate closely with architects, tech leads, and engineers on complex problems and represent engineering in cross-functional and external forums.
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 free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance
- 5% discount at our retail stores
- Onsite café with subsidised meals and a mini mart
- 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’re a senior engineering leader who thrives on solving complex technical challenges while guiding teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing systems. With deep expertise in DevSecOps, cloud security, and modern software delivery, you know how to turn high-level architecture into practical, robust solutions. Multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines are all in your toolkit - and you know how to use them to drive real impact.
You lead by example, mentoring engineers, shaping secure engineering practices, and influencing technical strategy across squads. You love pushing the boundaries of what’s possible while fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You’re curious, forward-thinking, and energized by helping teams build resilient, future-ready systems.
What you bring:
- Proven experience in Principal Engineer or Senior Tech Lead roles, leading complex engineering initiatives.
- Deep expertise in DevSecOps, secure SDLC, cloud security, infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD, and containerisation.
- Strong architectural insight with hands-on experience in distributed systems, microservices, API security, and cloud migrations.
- Ability to mentor, influence, and uplift engineering capability across teams, embedding secure practices and technical excellence.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and problem-solving skills to align delivery with strategy and enterprise architecture.
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
Recruitment.Foodstuffs @foodstuffs.co.nz. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
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