Platform Engineer

Posted:
11/5/2024, 4:00:00 PM

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

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

  • Access to world leading technology teams, tools and platforms
  • Competitive rem, annual bonus and enviable staff benefits
  • Limitless learning and development opportunities

The technology function at CommBank have been responsible for some of the world leading applications in Banking Technology. They leverage agile execution disciplines and governance, to provide the safe, sound, and secure delivery and operation of infrastructure and PaaS services hosted within on-premises data centres. Through outstanding innovations and cutting-edge tech solutions, they contribute to our customer outcomes the increased efficiency, productivity, security and customer usability, ensuring the delivery of word-class customer outcomes

See yourself in our team

Our Virtual Hosting Crew excels in building and maintaining resilient and scalable infrastructures for seamless application hosting. Focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, the team ensures reliable, secure environments that support development speed, whilst ensuring service stability.

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in enhancing and managing our hosting infrastructures. Bringing your expertise in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and distributed storage systems, you’ll be responsible for maintaining and automating platforms, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform stability and high availability. This role supports a high-availability setup, balancing innovation and operational stability to provide scalable, reliable resources.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Developing and maintaining scripts and automation workflows using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools.
  • Leveraging VMware and OpenStack to create, manage, and scale virtual machines and resources in a multi-tenant setup.
  • Using tools like Prometheus and Grafana for proactive monitoring, handling on-call rotations, and ensuring rapid incident response and resolution.
  • Managing distributed storage systems with tools such as CEPH and MinIO, ensuring data availability, resilience, and performance.
  • Configuring and maintaining network connectivity and load balancing with Calico, PowerDNS, and AVI Load Balancing, optimising network efficiency and security.
  • Partnering with development teams to enhance deployment pipelines, optimise performance, and ensure the infrastructure meets the needs of application services.
  • Utilising monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana for proactive system health checks and to manage on-call incident responses.
  • Set up, manage, and scale resources using VMware, CEPH, and OpenStack, with a focus on efficiency and fault tolerance.

Key Skills and Experience

  • Tenured Platform Engineer with DevOps and SRE practices in complex enterprise environments.  
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native technologies, networks, virtualisation, and containerisation (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Distributed Storage expertise using systems such as Systems eg. CEPH, MinIO.
  • Familiarity with container networking (Calico) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools.
  • Experience with AVI Load Balancer for software-defined load balancing.
  • Strong background in deploying and managing monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Splunk) to ensure system reliability and performance.
  • Proficiency in scripting and development languages (Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell).
  • Strong knowledge of VMware, OpenStack, and infrastructure as code tools.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native storage solutions, and network configuration.
  • Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Github actions, Cloud Formation.

Working with us 

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is 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 all our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.  

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

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