Security Engineer - Hawthorn East

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with over 115,000 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 team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

About the role

Directly reporting into our Engineering Manager, this is an exciting full-time and permanent role, embedded in our Identity and Access Management team. Working in a fast-paced environment, this role provides an exciting challenge and opportunity for career growth within IAM. 

As a Security Engineer, you will play a critical role that aims to provide IAM engineering services to support, develop and maintain the IAM components of Coles’ Infrastructure. Making meaningful contributions to the development of the Identity strategy and architecture to ensure our ongoing success to successfully protect Coles’ internal assets.

You can expect to:

• Assist in the selection of and deployment of new technologies.
• Identify opportunities for IT contribution to business improvement. 
• Enforce compliance with IAM principals including least privilege access, password management, Audit logging, certificate issuance and revocation.
• Work collaboratively with Product Manages, Engineering Mangers and Senior Security Engineers to identify and implement 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.
• Develop monitoring and reporting on the health, effectiveness and efficiency of IAM security events.
• Practice security hygiene, strong authentication and authorization, identity lifecycle management and governance.

About you

As part of your toolkit, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in an IAM Engineering role or similar. 
• Demonstrated experience in implementing, configuring, and maintaining IAM Security solutions. 
• Ability to innovate and provide efficient delivery and operational processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Strong vendor management and vendor collaboration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

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: 143555

Employment Type: Full time