See yourself in our Team  

Technology is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of Commonwealth Bank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. 

Your Role  

The purpose of the Staff Platform Engineer role is to provide engineering leadership, strategy, design, and support in order to drive excellence, quality and performance for an IT service, across one or multiple portfolios. Platform Engineers design and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments. Key responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to the following:

• Author and maintain detailed network security design documents, ensuring accuracy and representation of firewall configuration and deployment of security policy. 

• Author complex implementation plans and configuration of network security changes into CBA’s network services and devices 

• Demonstrated understanding and design of core switching and routing technologies such as VXLAN, VPN BGP, and OSPF. 

• Manage escalation of complex technical issues from suppliers, operations and application teams 

• Supporting and implementation of changes outside of regular business hours 

• Collaboratively work with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run platforms that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. 

Your Skills and Experiences  

• Extensive experience in designing solutions for networks in complex enterprise 

• Mandatory knowledge and demonstrated experience of Cisco Switches (Nexus and IOS), Routers and Firewalls. 

• Desirable experience in F5 GTM, LTM and DNS VMWare NSX, and Azure/AWS network security group enforcement policies and firewall management. 

• Experience in discovery and validation of network connectivity requirements 

• Network scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Python, NSO, Yang, Terraform, JSON Script 

• Experience in CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins) 

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in 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 in the role you’re interested in.