Ko wai mtou About us
Kia ora. Were Foodies. You know New World PAKnSAVE and Four Square right Thats us!
With 300 stores and over 24000 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 1000 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 Tranga About the role
Are you ready to lead the engine room of digital operations at one of New Zealands most iconic organisations As our Digital Operations Team Lead youll take on a DevOps Practice Lead-style role guiding a mission-critical team responsible for the performance scalability and security of our cloud platforms. Youll drive the evolution of our DevSecOps capability leading from the front to uplift engineering maturity embed CI/CD best practices and build a culture of automation resilience and continuous improvement.
This is more than just a technical leadership role its a chance to shape how we operate at scale from driving cost optimisation and platform governance to championing end-to-end monitoring incident response and disaster recovery. Youll work alongside a passionate group of engineers architects and delivery leaders to ensure our platforms are secure high-performing and always ready for whats next.
What youll be doing:
- Leading a high-performing Digital Operations team to deliver secure scalable and reliable platform services with 24/7 availability and top-tier incident response.
- Lead define and evolve DevSecOps practice at FSNI across multiple engineering squads youll help uplift engineering practices embed CI/CD processes and foster a culture of automation resilience and continuous improvement
- Owning cloud infrastructure operations including lifecycle management capacity planning cost optimisation and governance frameworks.
- Championing operational maturity from DR planning and tooling to backlog management and performance reporting.
- Partnering with Engineering Managers Product Owners Security and Architects to embed operational excellence into everything we build and run.
- Defining and evolving DevSecOps strategies standards and best practices across the organisation.
- Establishing and leading a DevSecOps community of practice to share knowledge drive innovation and uplift capability across teams.
- Coaching and mentoring engineers fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous learning.
- Leading vendor engagement and accountability ensuring service commitments are met and relationships are productive.
- Driving strategic planning and governance around change management release processes and incident response frameworks.
Ng painga - What we offer
Were committed to providing awesome experiences for our people including offering a range of benefits:
- Free carparking - weve got over 1000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance
- Onsite caf with subsidised meals and a 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 krero mu - About you
Youre a hands-on leader with a passion for building high-performing teams and delivering secure scalable platforms in complex environments. With a strong foundation in infrastructure cloud operations and DevSecOps youre someone who thrives in fast-paced agile settings where collaboration innovation and continuous improvement are key. Whether youre embedding security into delivery pipelines solving complex enterprise issues or coaching others to grow you bring a calm confident approach that inspires trust and drives results.
Youre not just technically strong youre also a great communicator a natural collaborator and someone who knows how to build strong relationships across teams vendors and stakeholders. Curious by nature and always ready to challenge the status quo youre comfortable working at pace adapting to change and leading with empathy and clarity.
Youll bring:
- Proven experience leading DevSecOps and cloud infrastructure practices in large fast-moving enterprise environments.
- A track record of building and managing diverse high-performing teams and vendor relationships.
- Deep knowledge of secure delivery pipelines infrastructure architecture and operational excellence.
- Strong communication and planning skills with the ability to influence and engage at all levels.
- A growth mindset curious adaptable and always looking for better ways to do things.
Experience awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be awesomely you.
Were 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 whnau.
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.
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