Cyber Specialist - 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

We are currently recruiting a Cyber Specialist to apply security knowledge and technical skills to implement, operate and maintain security controls, respond to incidents, and provide specialist advice to protect Cole’s systems and data.

Key responsibilities in the role will entail:

• Support the onboarding, integration, and operationalisation of security telemetry into SOC platforms and monitoring solutions.
• Assess application, infrastructure, cloud, and security technologies to identify log source requirements and monitoring opportunities.
• Design and document security logging, collection, and integration requirements for project and BAU initiatives.
• Collaborate with SOC Analysts, SOC Engineers, Detection Engineers, Platform Teams, and Application Owners to improve security visibility and coverage.
• Facilitate security use case discussions and contribute to the identification of monitoring and detection opportunities.
• Support the development, validation, and optimisation of security monitoring use cases and detection requirements.
• Manage and coordinate log onboarding activities across multiple stakeholders and technology teams.
• Support incident investigations, security analysis, and telemetry validation activities as required.
• Assist with cyber security uplift initiatives, security control improvements, and SOC capability enhancement programs.
• Produce technical documentation, reporting, implementation guidance, and operational handover artefacts.
• Manage stakeholder engagement, request lifecycle management, and provide regular progress and status reporting.
• Resource capacity availability identification, workload forecasting, end to end stakeholder management for soc engineering tasks, management of JIRA boards

About you and your skills

• Experience working within a Security Operations Centre (SOC), Cyber Security, Security Engineering, or Security Operations environment.
• Experience onboarding and validating security telemetry from applications, infrastructure, cloud, network, and security technologies.
• Experience supporting SIEM platforms and security monitoring use cases.
• Demonstrated experience working with multiple stakeholders to deliver cyber security, logging, monitoring, or integration initiatives.
• Experience investigating security events, analysing logs, and identifying monitoring gaps or onboarding requirements.
• Experience supporting security projects, operational activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong documentation and reporting skills, including operational procedures, technical requirements, and implementation documentation.
• Experience using JIRA, ServiceNow, or similar service management and work management platforms.

Skills and Qualifications

• Proven years' experience within Cyber Security, SOC Operations, SOC Engineering, Security Monitoring, or Security Engineering environments.
• Demonstrated exposure with security monitoring platforms, SIEM technologies, or security telemetry management.
• Strong understanding of security logging, log onboarding, data sources, event collection methodologies, and integration patterns.
• Experience working with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security technology stakeholders.
• Experience supporting security use case development, monitoring requirements, and operational security processes.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and/or ServiceNow for request management, workflow tracking, and reporting.
• Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced cyber security environment.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).

Preferred experience

Ideally, you’ll bring experience with SIEM and security technologies, including EDR/XDR, IAM/PAM, vulnerability management, network and cloud security. Familiarity with cyber security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, Essential Eight or ISO 27001, and exposure to security monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting or cyber assurance will be highly regarded.

Experience with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, along with relevant cyber security certifications, will also be advantageous.

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: 195213

Employment Type: Full time