Posted:
8/28/2024, 1:39:42 PM
Location(s):
New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering
Your Role
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you play a crucial contributory role in operating and delivering our technology products and services. As a suitably experienced and well-established engineer, you will contribute to a culture of continuous learning through staying abreast of emerging tools, opportunities and threats across the platforms you support. In this role, you will seek to optimise platform usability and process efficiency through automation, and your impact will be key in transforming our platform infrastructure and operations. Your role may include, but won’t be limited to:
Collaborative partnering 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.
Developing software and tooling to automate implementation of controls into our platforms and ensure all deployments and operations are as automated as possible, using languages such as Python and Go.
Maintaining underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable.
Assisting software engineers in experimenting with new potential platforms, following our standards, and when platforms become suitable for broader use, considering integrating as a standard group-wide tool.
Providing advice and guidance on improving scalability, deployment and test automation.
Participation 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.
About You
The ideal candidate will be a technically astute Staff Platform Engineer with demonstrated success developing, deploying and managing, scalable and secure enterprise-grade platforms. Success in this role will require a blend of technical and non-technical skills, including:
Non-Technical
Well-developed stakeholder engagement skills, particularly the ability to influence positive outcomes across interdisciplinary areas and multiple levels of leadership.
Clear, concise and effective communication skills, with the ability to appropriately demonstrate technical initiatives and outcomes to non-technical audiences.
Demonstrable business acumen and an understanding of potential customer and market impacts on decisioning.
Effective leadership skills with the ability to appropriately guide a highly technical team of world-class engineers.
Technical
Advanced Linux engineering in large-scale environments.
Expertise in developing software automation using Python or Go.
Expertise with opensource development practices.
Expertise with Ansible or Terraform for infrastructure as code, automation, and orchestration.
Experience with Kubernetes and large cluster operations.
Proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, focusing on automating testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Proficiency in data processing and analysis, especially for monitoring system performance and handling large datasets with Prometheus and Grafana.
Proficient in networking and systems programming, including custom networking tools, load balancers, and API gateways.
Extensive experience with AWS and Azure for optimising cloud infrastructure.
Competence in developing private cloud environments.
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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. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
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