Foodstuffs, Inc.

Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Foodstuffs, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Auckland • 🇳🇿 New Zealand

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservicesSDLCTerraform

About the role

  • Define and Enforce Engineering Standards: A key role in the creation and adoption of secure engineering standards, governance policies, best practices, and alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance frameworks.
  • Drive Secure & Efficient DevSecOps Practices: Champion productivity by streamlining workflows, automating tasks, and optimizing tools to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient solution delivery.
  • Establish Reusable Frameworks & Continuous Improvement: Develop and maintain reusable frameworks, reference implementations, and continuously assess and improve engineering processes and tooling using feedback and metrics.
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide deep technical guidance, mentorship, and strategic advice across teams, leading communities of practice and influencing engineering decisions and direction.
  • Align Engineering & Architectural Design: Translate architectural designs into actionable implementation plans, review technical designs, and ensure engineering delivery aligns with organizational standards and vision.
  • Collaboration & Representation: Collaborate closely with architects, tech leads, and engineers on complex problems and represent engineering in cross-functional and external forums.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in Principal Engineer or Senior Tech Lead roles, leading complex engineering initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in DevSecOps, secure SDLC, cloud security, infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), CI/CD, and containerisation.
  • Strong architectural insight with hands-on experience in distributed systems, microservices, API security, and cloud migrations.
  • Ability to mentor, influence, and uplift engineering capability across teams, embedding secure practices and technical excellence.
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and problem-solving skills to align delivery with strategy and enterprise architecture.
Benefits
  • Free carparking -we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
  • Southern cross health insurance
  • 5% discount at our retail stores
  • Onsite café with subsidised meals and a mini mart
  • Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
  • Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
DevSecOpssecure SDLCcloud securityinfrastructure as codeTerraformCloudFormationCI/CDcontainerisationdistributed systemsmicroservices
Soft skills
mentorshipinfluencestakeholder engagementcommunicationproblem-solving