Observability Specialist

About the role:

As an Observability Specialist, you’ll support the delivery and day-to-day operation of our enterprise observability platform. This will help ensure consistent visibility across a diverse hybrid technology environment.

Working closely with the Senior Observability Engineer, you’ll contribute to the rollout of platform capabilities, onboard new systems, and help maintain the overall health and effectiveness of monitoring across the business. You’ll work directly with modern observability tools, gaining valuable experience while supporting a critical enterprise capability.

This is a 12-month fixed-term position, with a focus on delivering critical observability uplift.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation and enhancement of observability platform capabilities
• Deploy and manage monitoring agents across infrastructure and platform environments
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide clear operational visibility
• Configure and refine alerting to improve signal quality and reduce noise
• Monitor platform health, investigating and resolving data or connectivity issues
• Onboard new systems and services following established processes and standards

About You:

You’ll be a technically capable engineer eager to grow your experience across observability, monitoring, platform operations and automation. Ideally, you’ll also bring:

• Hands-on experience with observability or monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience deploying or supporting agents across Linux, Windows, or cloud environments.
• Familiarity with automation or deployment tools (e.g. Ansible, Helm, SCCM or similar).
• Understanding of cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Exposure to version-controlled configuration or code-based deployment practices.
• Ability to follow processes, contribute to documentation, and support continuous improvement. 

Don't Meet Every Requirement?

We encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for individuals with diverse experiences and are keen to hear from those who believe they have the drive and potential to succeed in this role.

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” to apply for the role! Applications will close 11:59pm Tuesday 23 June 2026 and will only be accepted via our careers site.

If you have any questions about the role, or experience any issues submitting your application, please email careers@foodstuffs-si.co.nz

Why join us?

• Our approach to flexible working is based on trusting and empowering our people to manage their time and deliver results while balancing the needs of their personal lives.
• We’re committed to equitable outcomes, and we offer additional paid parental leave, free period products and financial health checks to name a few.
• We support your wellbeing with Southern Cross health insurance for you and your family after a qualifying period, discounts at local gyms, access to online wellbeing tools, and a prayer and privacy room onsite.
• We offer continuous learning and professional growth, as well as access to our extensive online training library and endless opportunities.
• We’re proud of our supportive team environment, and our positive and friendly culture that’s made fun by Furry Friend Fridays and monthly social events!
• We’re a Pride Pledge organisation, and we are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives, every day and we celebrate our diversity as strength.
• Our Papanui based office has free carparking, an in-house café.

About us:

We’re a team of 14,000 who make sure South Islanders have access to the groceries and essentials they need. Proudly 100% Kiwi-owned and operated, our co-operative has more than 180 PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and On the Spot stores feeding the South Island.

We value being at the heart of our communities, like we’ve always been, to make the South Island a better place – for today and for many generations to come. From sunny Golden Bay all the way to Stewart Island, there’s a Foodstuffs store serving you and your whānau.

Our values:

At Foodies, together we drive success to be our best and care for our whānau. We recognise that it takes a collective effort to achieve success, and we thrive on fostering a culture of collaboration to drive innovation and embracing challenges as a united team. We are committed to supporting our people, and to positively impact the lives of South Islanders every day.