Senior Cyber Specialist - Hawthorn East
A new role means a new way to win together. We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and at the heart of our continued success lies our 115,000 team members working across the country. If you’re looking for a career-defining opportunity, take the next step and explore another way your work can have impact and make a difference.
About the team
Technology is the backbone of our business—driving the end‑to‑end supply chain that ensures products move efficiently from suppliers to distribution centres, stores, and ultimately to our customers. Every day, our teams solve complex and meaningful problems across logistics, manufacturing, warehouse automation, transport, and site‑based technologies. These solutions support thousands of team members and help deliver millions of customer orders with reliability and safety.
The Cyber Security team at Coles is proud of its track record in delivering customer‑ and operations‑focused security outcomes. As we continue to strengthen the resilience of our Supply Chain Network, a number of exciting initiatives are underway to protect our customers, team members, operational sites, and Coles’ reputation.
The Cyber Security function is accountable for all aspects of security across Coles, including Strategy & Architecture, Governance, Security Detection & Response, Cloud Security, OT Security, and Security Technologies.
This role sits within the Group Cyber – Secure by Design (Business Protect) team and will play a key role in uplifting cyber risk and control maturity across the Supply Chain Network, including distribution centres, manufacturing sites, transport operations, and automation environments.
Key Responsibilities
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Act as the primary engagement point for Supply Chain Technology, Site Operations, OT Engineering, and other key business stakeholders to build strong relationships and deliver secure‑by‑design outcomes.
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Ensure Supply Chain Technology, OT teams, and vendors design and deliver solutions in line with Coles’ Cyber Security policies and standards.
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Embed cyber security best practices into system, application, and OT risk assessments across the supply chain.
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Ensure Cloud, on‑prem infrastructure, network, and Operational Technology (OT) solution designs adopt secure‑by‑design principles.
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Support secure‑by‑design activities for warehouse automation, robotics, IoT devices, industrial systems, and site‑based control systems.
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Collaborate with cross-domain teams to ensure the secure and privacy-aligned use of data across supply chain systems and operational workflows.
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Embed AI/ML security risk management and baseline requirements into new supply chain‑related data science or optimisation initiatives.
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Provide security advisory across initiatives impacting distribution centres, manufacturing operations, transport management systems, and supplier connectivity.
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Assist with the identification, tracking, and reporting of cyber risks and control uplift opportunities across the supply chain environment.
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Partner with Cyber Detection & Response for OT‑related incidents, ensuring incident preparedness and coordinated response across sites.
Skills and Qualifications
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10+ years of Information Security experience, ideally including work across complex operational environments such as supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, or utilities.
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Strong understanding of security management frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Essential 8.
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Demonstrated experience developing and uplifting technical and procedural controls to protect technology and/or OT environments.
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Proven ability to consult with technology, engineering, and operational stakeholders to ensure security requirements are integrated into design and implementation.
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Solid understanding of security reference architectures and a broad range of security capabilities across IT and OT environments.
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Experience assessing AI/ML solutions and their security and privacy implications.
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Strong secure‑by‑design experience with the ability to guide stakeholders toward resilient solutions across IT and OT ecosystems.
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Ability to manage a personal pipeline of work, balance multiple concurrent priorities, and meet project commitments.
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Strong understanding of cyber security policy, standards, and secure development / system lifecycle requirements.
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Experience assessing inherent and residual risk for changes impacting operational or OT systems.
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Confident in presenting risk, vulnerabilities, and compliance concerns to management.
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: 178761
Employment Type: Full time