SRE Lead
Coles Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Melbourne • Australia
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About the role
- Partner closely with Operations teams to uncover pain points, inefficiencies, and systemic risks
- Proactively identify reliability gaps, performance bottlenecks, and resilience opportunities
- Translate operational feedback into strategic technical improvements
- Define and lead the Site Reliability strategy for the team
- Introduce and uplift SRE principles, standards and best practices
- Evaluate market-leading tools and solutions, recommending and implementing those that align with Coles’ ecosystem
- Provide technical direction across products, systems and platforms
- Lead reliability initiatives across Azure and cloud infrastructure environments
- Drive improvements in system resilience, scalability, and availability
- Oversee and optimise CI/CD pipelines, guiding best-practice implementation
- Champion modern monitoring, alerting and observability frameworks
- Manage budgets within the reliability domain
- Assess cost vs. value of tooling, infrastructure improvements and platform investments
- Ensure cloud and infrastructure optimisation aligns with financial objectives
Requirements
- Experience in Azure infrastructure and broader cloud environments
- Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and frameworks
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling
- Skills in CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and optimisation
- Expertise in infrastructure resilience, availability, and performance tuning
- Experience working closely with operational or support teams in large environments
- Budget management and financial oversight within a technical function.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Azurecloud infrastructureSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)CI/CD pipeline designperformance tuningmonitoring toolsalerting toolsobservability frameworksinfrastructure optimisationbudget management
Soft Skills
collaborationstrategic thinkingleadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationtechnical directioninitiativefinancial oversight