• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• You will be part of an innovative environment with likeminded individuals

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

This role is part of the International Regulatory Reporting Crew where we deliver cutting-edge technology solutions allowing the Bank to comply with regulatory reporting and disclosure obligations across the Banks international jurisdictions. We are implementing a new cloud data platform to modernise our regulatory reporting.

See yourself in our team

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be an integral member of our Engineering practice and delivering the new data platform and other initiatives. This roles focus is on operational excellence through the design, build, run, and evolution of foundational tools, infrastructure and automation working with both bank and partner teams. This role will influence engineering practices across teams, participate in governance forums, and ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards.

Overall, to be successful in this role you will:

• Design and evolve platforms: Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure, templates, and tooling that support application deployment, observability, and operational resilience

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments

• Collaboration with product teams: Partner with internal and third-party engineers to co-design and operate platforms that improve delivery velocity, quality, and safety.

• Operational support: Participate in on-call rotations and incident response workflows to ensure availability of critical services.

• Influence over ownership: Focus on influencing and directing engineering practices across vendor teams to align with the banks and strive for automation, observability, and governance practices.

• Cross-functional governance: Participate in forums such as Change, Risk & Security, and Service Management to ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards.

• Blended responsibilities: Overlap with SRE data and systems Engineering, particularly in areas like observability, DevOps integration, and service reliability.

• Continuous improvement: Perform complex problem resolution, root cause analysis and identification of improvement opportunities.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have experience in domain such as:

• Proven experience in working with engineering and operational teams, especially cloud data engineering platforms

• Proven experience in operational engagements required to bring a product to life (e.g. Risk, Security, Incident, Change, Problem, Monitoring, Supplier Governance, Defect Review, Scalability, Automation)

• Experience with third-party integration (eg. APIs,SFT) and vendor management.

• Experience with Cloud/AWS fundamental service (IAM, VPC and EC2,S3)

• Experience with automation such as testing, data ingestion, APIs, file transfers

• Sound experience of SRE Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Security

• ELK Stack, or similar monitoring and logging tools.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Have a problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team:

• Proficient in Python: programming skills with experience in backend development using Django or similar frameworks.

• Containerisation and Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or other cloud platforms for infrastructure deployment.

• Frontend Basics: Familiarity with ReactJS, ViteJS, NextJS, or similar frameworks for frontend integration.

• Source control, and CI/CD tooling GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Jenkins

• Monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana, and AppDynamics

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or inspired by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. 

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half our time each month connecting in the office. We also have many other flexible working options available, including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact on customers, communities and each other is part of our everyday day.

 Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. 

If this sounds like you, apply now

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