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

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.

In this role, you can expect to:

• 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

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: 139426

Employment Type: Full time