Senior Observability Engineer

About the role:

As a Senior Observability Engineer, you’ll lead the design and ongoing improvement of our enterprise observability platform. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll act as the authority for our Grafana Cloud ecosystem. You’ll work across Platform Engineering, CloudOps, DevSecOps, Infrastructure and Network teams to embed observability into platform design and enable reliable, scalable operations.

You’ll also mentor others and drive consistency through standardisation, automation and best practice adoption across a complex hybrid environment.

This is a fixed-term role for 12-months supporting a key project on delivering critical observability uplift.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and embed standards for monitoring, alerting, and dashboard design across teams
• Drive the transition from legacy monitoring tools to modern, cloud-based platforms
• Develop and manage data ingestion pipelines across cloud, infrastructure, and network environments
• Build and maintain dashboards that provide meaningful operational and performance insights
• Design alerting frameworks with clear routing, prioritisation and ITSM integration
• Implement automation and code-driven configuration to improve consistency and reduce manual effort

About you:

You’ll be an experienced observability or platform engineer with strong technical depth and a practical, delivery-focused mindset. Confident working across teams, you’ll lead initiatives that improve the performance and reliability of critical platforms. Ideally, you’ll also bring:

• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise observability platforms (e.g. Grafana Cloud)
• Strong Prometheus experience, including querying and alerting approaches
• Experience implementing code-driven platform configuration (e.g. GitOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines)
• Solid understanding of cloud environments across AWS and/or GCP
• Exposure to Kubernetes and modern platform or infrastructure environments
• Experience using scripting or infrastructure tooling to support scalable operations

How to apply:

Ready to take on the challenge? Click “apply” to apply for the role! Applications will close 11:59pm Sunday 21 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 success is down to our people who bring their skills, experience, passion, and expertise to make Foodies an amazing and rewarding place to work. Our co-op has a wide variety of roles to offer, and endless opportunities for development.

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.