Engineer - Hawthorn East

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30‑listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

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

As an SRE Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, availability, performance and security of critical platforms. You will contribute hands‑on across the engineering lifecycle — designing, building, automating, and supporting solutions that improve platform resilience and operational readiness. You’ll apply strong engineering principles, introduce modern SRE and DevOps practices, and help uplift observability, automation, and platform efficiency across teams.

Key Responsibilities Include

• 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.

About You And Your Skills

You will bring strong technical engineering expertise and a passion for platform reliability, including

• 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.

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 .

Job ID 174717

Employment Type Full time