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Security Engineer (Identity and Access Mangement)

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

About the role

 

Reporting to Engineering Manager, your role will be to provide technology services to support, develop and maintain the Identity and Access Management components of the IT infrastructure in accordance with agreed service levels within Coles.

 

You will be an effective, strategic partner to key vendors and customer stakeholders, providing them with leadership with respect to the Identity platform and to the broader IT community. Your contribution towards the development of the Identity strategy and architecture will be imperative to our ongoing success as the team continues to successfully protect Coles’ internal assets.

 

We provide the solutions for all aspects of identity management, including governance, authentication/authorisation controls, security operations and automation.

 

What you’ll be doing

 

The IAM team at Coles is critical to the protection of our internal assets and the assessment of potential incoming threats. Having performed in a similar role previously, you will have the ability to identify emerging threats in the market and assess our security infrastructure’s capabilities to manage such threats before they occur.

 

Our primary focus is enabling the business to succeed by providing quality engineered Identity systems across our platforms and providers. With identity forming key corner stone of modern security controls, it’s an exciting, fast paced and challenging environment.  With a wide range of skills needed, and plenty of opportunities to learn many aspects that make up a modern secure system(s)

 

You will be called upon to assist in the selection of and deployment of new technologies which provide business benefit to the organisation as well as identify opportunities for IT contribution to business improvement.

 

What you will be doing:

 

  • Enforce compliance with IAM principals including least privilege access, password management, Audit logging, certificate issuance and revocation.
  • Work with management and other personnel to identify security best practices
  • Apply a risk-based approach to information security covering the security aspects of Cloud & On-premise IAM services with a focus on authentication and authorisation services
  • Be responsible for IAM security risk reduction activities using engineering and automation principles
  • Manage incident response for IAM security events to ensure service recovery and availability
  • Support privileged account management services (such as vaulting, password rotation, checkout procedures, etc.)
  • Perform security and data/logs analysis
  • Develop monitoring and reporting on the health, effectiveness and efficiency of IAM security events
  • Perform analysis on existing user IDs to identify orphaned accounts
  • Practice security hygiene, strong authentication and authorization, identity lifecycle management and governance

 

Good things you’ll need

 

  • Tertiary qualifications in IT
  • In depth expertise in applicable IT processes and technologies
  • Ability to lead Project design and delivery and manage difficult technical issues across the technology portfolio
  • Ability to innovate and provide efficient delivery and operational processes
  • Ability to understand business and IT strategy, environment and trends across multiple technologies
  • Strong self-management skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders to achieve outcomes
  • Strong vendor management and vendor collaboration
  • Relevant retail business experience
  • Demonstrated awareness in applicable IT change and problem management processes
  • Excellent interpersonal
  • Excellent analytical and problem resolution skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent customer service and customer relationship skills
  • Application of the Coles Group values and behaviours

Take your next step into something bigger, apply now

 

With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is our investment and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.

 

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

 

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

 

Job ID: 132115

 

Employment Type: Full time

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