Senior Platform Engineer
Coles Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hawthorn East • Australia
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About the role
- Lead the configuration and management of cloud-native and hybrid environments (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric), ensuring platform reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency.
- Identify and address platform technical debt, influencing architectural decisions that balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability.
- Champion quality engineering practices by designing robust automated tests and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to ensure platform resilience and reliability.
- Own and manage platform release cycles, ensuring smooth deployments with minimal disruption, and driving adoption of automated deployment strategies.
- Implement and advocate for platform-level security controls (e.g., IAM, encryption, firewall rules), ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and proactively addressing vulnerabilities.
- Lead monitoring and incident response efforts, driving root cause analysis and continuous improvement to enhance platform stability and performance.
- Maintain and evolve platform documentation and engineering standards, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with enterprise architecture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, engineers, and product managers to enable efficient use of platform capabilities and accelerate delivery.
- Provide expert L2/L3 platform support, proactively resolving complex issues across data and ML workflows, and ensuring SLAs and operational excellence are consistently met.
Requirements
- Extensive experience developing and optimising data and AI platform services, providing deep specialised knowledge in cloud-native data infrastructure and ML tooling.
- Delivered outcomes across multiple platform components, contributing to solution design and architecture while ensuring alignment with implementation requirements.
- Scoped and specified platform solutions, gaining stakeholder support through clear articulation of technical direction and business value.
- Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing platform capabilities that meet business needs and deadlines.
- Coached and influenced engineers to uphold high standards in platform development, fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Experience in Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, Fabric, Azure ML.
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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud-native environmentshybrid environmentsautomated testsCI/CD pipelinesplatform security controlsIAMencryptionfirewall rulesdata infrastructureML tooling
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcoachinginfluencingcommunicationproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementcontinuous improvementquality engineeringtechnical direction