Golang Job: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our Story

The Woolworths Group has been focused on the importance of digital and what we need to do to better serve our customers through creating shopping experiences that are personalised, seamless, and convenient. Enter WooliesX. WooliesX is the combination of our digital businesses working in collaboration together to capitalise on the communities of professionals we have at Woolworths. We create new teams, with new practices, and a modern dynamic engineering culture by investing in the right people and resources to make it possible. We’re proud of the work we do and want to be known for delivering exceptional client experiences with great work-life balance.

WooliesX is structured by communities of capabilities, chapters, which bring different skills into our execution teams, squads. The focus within our chapters is to develop strategies, skills, and capabilities through training and conversations. Our squads focus on specific business benefits and the creation of solutions to capitalise on opportunities within their business areas.

Overview of the Role

Reporting to the Technology Lead for Reliability, you will play a key role within a leading digital organisation to facilitate the delivery of critical applications to our customers. Working with engineers from various practices, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and stability of our applications by being involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle.

This is a role for a technologist with a strong background in software engineering and systems engineering who can apply their experience and knowledge to influence decisions while utilising metrics and data to demonstrate the impact of those decisions. The ability to define metrics for identifying issues in applications utilising observability platforms and embedding emergency response procedures is also critical to ensuring the satisfaction of our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive a squad’s roadmap
• Work closely with Architects and Engineers to design, build, deploy, manage and operate environments
• Bring the best practices from across the Engineering practice into the delivery cycle
• Embed observability into all aspects of the application ecosystem
• Evaluate all platform and service consumption to optimise costs and capacity
• Review changes to applications for risk to ensure availability targets are met
• Respond to major incidents during rostered on-call periods to assist in remediation and identify areas of improvement
• Assist teams in identifying and removing manual repetitive tasks from their work

• Share your experiences within your chapter and across the Engineering practice

• Evangelise implementations across the organisation where beneficial
  

Role Requirements

• Experience working in cross functional engineering teams in a fast paced environment
• Strong experience in modern engineering practices and disciplines.
• Ability to stay calm in challenging circumstances and work through problems methodically.
• Ability to question decisions and challenge the status quo.
• Good understanding of Agile & Lean delivery principles.
• Strong experience establishing SRE capabilities to meet the demand of multiple teams or business units
• Strong experience implementing SRE practices in multiple teams and influencing engineers and product owners to prioritise reliability in their product roadmap
• Strong experience in automating manual processes and working with operations engineers to establish incident response procedures
  

Key Technical skills

• Cloud - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Code - Powershell, Bash, C#, .NET Core, NodeJS, GoLang
• Databases - Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, CosmosDB, PostgreSQL
• CI - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins
• Infrastructure - Kubernetes, Terraform
• Observability - App Insights, Dynatrace, Azure Log Analytics, Google Cloud Monitoring
  

Grow with the Group

Woolworths Group has announced it will be requiring Australian team members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (subject to medical and religious exemptions).

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences – for our customers and for each other.

We’d love to hear from You

If you meet a number of the requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or via www.wowcareers.com.au . #LI #work180

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