Engineer/OpenShift & Linux Platforms

Engineer - Edge, OpenShift & Linux Platforms

• Opportunity to work on the latest technology and methodology

• Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia’s largest retailer

• Sydney (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 to have impact across the group and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

The Opportunity

As the Engineer for the Edge and Linux Fleet, you will own the lifecycle, scalability, and "developer experience" of our core operating system and container environments. You will bridge the gap between Engineering (building the automation/base images) and Operations (ensuring 99.9% uptime and compliance across highly distributed edge locations). Your goal is to treat our edge infrastructure and cluster fleet as a product: ensuring it is easy to consume via code (IaC/GitOps), inherently secure, and compute-optimized across the Edge, Azure, & GCP.

What you’ll do

• Platform Roadmap: Contribute to the "Golden Path" for Linux and Red Hat OpenShift deployments at the edge. Decide when to deprecate older architectures and how to transition teams to modern, container-native edge footprints (e.g., RHEL CoreOS, Single Node OpenShift).

• Infrastructure as Product: Partner with Engineering to ensure edge environments are "consumable" via Woolworths’ automation tooling (Terraform/Ansible/GitOps). You aren't just delivering a bare-metal node or a Linux VM; you are delivering an automated, container-ready service.

• DevOps Orchestration: Own the CI/CD pipelines that handle image factory builds, automated testing, and fleet-wide patch orchestration for both the host OS and container platforms.

• Security & Compliance: Act as the primary interface for Security teams. Translate complex regulatory requirements (e.g., CIS benchmarks for Linux and Kubernetes) into actionable engineering backlogs for automated remediation.

• Operational Excellence: Use Woolworths current reporting & monitoring tools to derive product insights. Identify "noisy" segments of the distributed edge fleet and prioritise engineering fixes to reduce operational "toil."

What you’ll bring

• 7+ years in IT Infrastructure or Software Engineering, with at least 2–3 years in a Product Environment or Technical Architecture role focusing on edge computing or container platforms.

• Degree in Computing Science or equivalent; Red Hat Certifications (RHCE, EX280 OpenShift) or Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certifications (CKA/CKS) are a significant plus.

• A "consultant" mindset.

Technical Domain Authority

• Linux & OpenShift Ecosystem: Deep knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, and scripting (Bash, Python, or Go). You must understand the "legacy" enough to migrate it and the "modern" enough to automate it.

• Edge & Cloud Native: Hands-on experience with distributed Edge deployments, container runtime management, and hybrid control planes (e.g., Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management).

• The "IaC" Mindset: Proven experience moving teams from "click-ops" to code-based deployments using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps methodologies (like ArgoCD).

Product Management Craft

• Stakeholder Management: Experience balancing the conflicting needs of App Devs (who want speed) and Security/Ops (who want stability).

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Ability to use telemetry to justify platform investments (e.g., "Moving to immutable OS images at the edge will reduce deployment times by X and save Y in operational overhead").

• Backlog Governance: Proficiency in JIRA to manage sprints, feature requests, and technical debt.

Security First Philosophy

• Experience with DevSecOps—integrating vulnerability scanning (e.g., container image scanning) and policy-as-code into the deployment pipeline so that security is "invisible" to the end user.

What you’ll experience

We embrace diversity of thought 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.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

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. 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.