Posted:
8/5/2025, 10:55:33 AM
Location(s):
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⋅ New South Wales, Australia
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering
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 can place customers at the centre of what we do
Do work that matters
CommSec is Australia’s leading online share trading platform, known for innovation and customer experience. As part of the Platform Engineering team, you’ll contribute to strategic initiatives like cloud consolidation, AI-powered engineering, and reliability uplift. You’ll work alongside top collaborators to shape the future of financial technology.
See Yourself in our team
This role blends Platform Engineering and Reliability Engineering with a strong AI mindset and AIOps capabilities. You’ll design, build, and evolve infrastructure, tooling, and automation that empower product teams to deliver customer value with speed, safety, and reliability. You’ll also champion AI-powered engineering practices and embed intelligent automation into operations, observability, and service management. Reports to: Crew Lead – CommSec Technology Platform
We’re interested in hearing from people who can:
Platform Engineering
Build secure, scalable, and self-service platforms using Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native services (AWS preferred)
Develop standardised tooling for deployment, monitoring, and operations. Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations using Python, Go, and Terraform
Continuously evolve platform capabilities to embrace new technologies and improve developer experience
Reliability Engineering
Accelerate and standardise reliability practices across CommSec and the broader Group through frameworks, tooling, and community engagement
Improve observability and reliability of key services using strategic tooling and AI-powered insights
Lead incident response, blameless postmortems, and reliability risk mitigation. • Mentor engineers and stakeholders on reliability principles and practices
AI & AIOps Enablement
Embed AI-powered engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, autonomous agents, anomaly detection) into platform and reliability workflows
Leverage Gen AI and agentic frameworks to automate diagnostics, remediation, and service management
Drive adoption of AI tools across squads, aiming for 100% usage in FY26
Collaborate on initiatives like “Hey CommSec” Gen AI chatbot and self-service analytics platforms
Strategic Impact
Influence architecture and design decisions with a focus on operability, automation, and AI integration
Partner with squads to uplift DevSecOps maturity and reduce toil through intelligent automation
Contribute to CommSec’s AI strategy and maturity curve, including ethical AI and multi-agent frameworks
People Leadership & Chapter Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a chapter of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
Provide coaching and career development support to chapter members, aligning individual growth with strategic goals
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across squads, ensuring alignment on platform initiatives and engineering standards. • Represent the chapter in leadership forums, contributing to strategic planning and capability uplift
Promote psychological safety and inclusive practices within the chapter and broader engineering community
Tech Skills & Experience
Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
Deep experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code
Proven track record in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and reliability practices
Familiarity with AI tools, frameworks, and AIOps platforms (e.g., anomaly detection, self-healing pipelines)
Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and incident management
Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and business domains
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney 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.
Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
If this sounds like you, apply now!
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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Website: https://commbank.com.au/
Headquarter Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1911
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Wealth Management