Senior Platform Engineer- Kubernetes/AWS

Posted:
9/18/2024, 4:38:41 PM

Location(s):
New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

  • You are highly experienced in building customer focussed solutions

  • We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create new solution

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

  • Please note that we have two opportunities

Do work that matters:

The role of Senior Platform Engineers is to Design, Build, Run & 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. 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.  Help to make our platforms loved by our engineers!   We are keen hear from platform engineers who are passionate about infrastructure as code and software eating the world!

 

 We’re interested in hearing from people who:

  • As a Senior Platform Engineer are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Challenge and Run

  • Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality software and platforms.

  • Contributes to a culture where quality, inclusiveness and excellence are championed.

  • Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.

Requirements of the role:

  • 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.

  • Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.

  • Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices

  • Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable

  • Make all platforms entirely self-service, secure, and available within minutes without human approval.

  • Ensure that our platforms are loved by our software engineers, and continually evolve our platforms to embrace new technology and improve the happiness and efficiency of our software engineers.

  • Write software to ensure that all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as python and go, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms.

  • Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.

 

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;  

 

Essential:

  • Experience as Software Engineer/ DevOps/SRE/System Engineer in Cloud environment.

  • Experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.

  • Experience with programming in Golang or Python.

  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code(Cloudformation, Terraform, Pulumi)

  • Experience working with CI/CD (Codebuild, GitOps/ArgoCD)

  • Understanding of DevOps/SRE Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Security.

  • Be able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively

Desirable:

  • Advanced knowledge in Kubernetes networking, security and controller/operator.

  • Advanced knowledge in Linux internal and be able to troubleshoot complex issues

  • Systematic problem-solving approach and proactively continue improving current processes and tools

 

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called 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.

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 of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.  

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.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!

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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Commonwealth Bank Australia

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Headquarter Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1911

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

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