Platform Engineer

Big W; Geehi; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Woolworths Group is seeking a Platform / DevOps Lead to power Australia’s leading retail digital experiences. The role focuses on reliability, security, performance, and cost of our customer‑facing infrastructure.

You will define engineering practices, champion CI/CD, and mentor engineers to translate product ideas into resilient solutions at pace, while leading squads in an agile, collaborative environment across digital services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, scaling, and maintaining large‑scale consumer digital platforms.
• Experience leading technical squads with strong communication and stakeholder skills.
• Hands‑on IaC and CI/CD across cloud environments.
• Expertise with cloud platforms and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with observability tools and Atlassian suite for ALM.
• Comfort in fast‑paced Agile environments with end‑to‑end accountability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale digital platforms with modern cloud infra and DevOps tooling.
• Embed engineering excellence across cross‑functional squads for performance and security.
• Drive CI/CD automation and infrastructure provisioning end‑to‑end.
• Leverage AI‑assisted tooling to speed delivery and improve velocity.
• Lead, mentor and foster an agile, customer‑first culture.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt and dependencies across apps.

Skills

DevOps & Platform Eng

Leadership Experience

CI/CD & IaC

Cloud & Containers

Observability

Agile Mindset

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira/Confluence

Job description

• Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer
  
• Opportunity to work across the latest technology and methodology
  
• Norwest based with a hybrid working model
  

• Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer
  
• Opportunity to work across the latest technology and methodology
  
• Norwest based with a hybrid working model
  

We Are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

At BIGW, a job is never just a job.

It’s the start of something bigger. There are over 15,000 of us, in the most significant cities and the tiniest towns. And each of us has an important role to play. If you have a passion for excellent customer service, a desire to make a real difference for families and you’re looking for a place to develop, you could be who we’re looking for.

The Opportunity

Join BIG W’s fast-evolving digital team as a Platform / DevOps Lead, where you will be instrumental in powering Australia’s favorite everyday retail experiences. In this role, you will take ownership of the reliability, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the infrastructure that underpins our customer‑facing digital environment.

Working at the intersection of modern platform engineering and agile delivery, you will define and embed standard‑setting engineering practices across digital squads—championing continuous integration, deployment automation, and self‑healing infrastructure. You will enjoy the autonomy to shape how we build and scale platforms while leading and mentoring engineering talent to translate product ideas into resilient digital solutions at pace.

What You'll Do

• Architect & Scale Digital Platforms:Partner closely with Solution Architecture and Engineering Managers to select, design, and optimize modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling tailored to digital services.

• Embed Engineering Excellence:Champion modern systems engineering practices across cross‑functional squads, ensuring solutions are inherently performant, secure, reliable, deployable, and evolvable.

• Accelerate CI/CD & Automation:Drive end‑to‑end automation across build and deployment pipelines (CI/CD), infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and self‑recovery mechanisms.

• Leverage Next-Gen Tooling:Utilize AI‑assisted development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT) to accelerate cloud infrastructure delivery, automate routine platform tasks, and improve developer velocity.

• Platform Operations & Triage:Play an active, hands‑on role in investigating and resolving complex production issues, conducting root‑cause analyses, and hardening platform telemetry and observability.

• Lead & Mentor Squads:Provide technical leadership and guidance to DevOps and platform engineers, fostering an agile, collaborative culture centered on continuous improvement and customer‑first outcomes.

• Manage Risk & Dependencies:Identify, communicate, and proactively mitigate technical debt, platform vulnerabilities, and architectural dependencies across consumer‑facing digital applications.

What You'll Bring

• DevOps & Platform Engineering Background:Strong foundation as a DevOps / Platform Engineer with proven experience designing, scaling, and maintaining large‑scale consumer‑facing digital platforms.

• Leadership & Influence:Practical experience leading, coaching, or mentoring technical squads (or acting in a senior advisory/consultancy capacity), with strong communication and stakeholder skills.

• Multi-Tool CI/CD & IaC Mastery:Deep hands‑on expertise building Infrastructure as Code usingTerraformand orchestrating delivery pipelines withAzure DevOpsandGitHub Actions.

• Cloud & Container Ecosystem:Robust experience managing containerised workloads withDockerandKubernetesacross enterpriseAzureandLinuxenvironments.

• Observability & Operational Rigor:Solid background in application performance monitoring (APM) and infrastructure telemetry tools, alongside familiarity with the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).

• Agile Mindset:Deep comfort working in fast‑paced Scrum/Agile environments with full Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) accountability.

What You’ll Experience

• We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose‑driven work.

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.

• A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere’ policy that gives you the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing.

• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.

Woolworths Group is an inclusive, team‑first company and we value all skills and experiences. If you meet some, but not all of the requirements, we encourage you to submit your application.