Hybrid Engineer

at Coles Group

• Job title: Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hawthorn East, Australia

About the role

• SRE Engineer responsible for maintaining platform reliability and performance for Coles Group serving Australian communities. Contribute to engineering lifecycle and implement modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring operational readiness of solutions through reliability, performance, monitoring and disaster‑recovery considerations.
• Designing, enhancing, and maintaining scalable and resilient platform capabilities.
• Contributing hands‑on to engineering delivery including design, development, automation, and operational support.
• Driving adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, automation and cloud‑native engineering practices.
• Identifying and reducing technical debt while improving resilience and platform efficiency.
• Ensuring compliance with security, governance, and operational standards.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, delivery and operations teams to ensure platforms are production‑ready and well supported.

Requirements

• Experience in software engineering across modern technology stacks, ideally in cloud and distributed environments.
• Strong familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Solid understanding of system reliability, observability, performance engineering and operational readiness.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Relevant technical qualifications or experience in cloud engineering, DevOps or software engineering disciplines.

Benefits

• 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.