Chief Engineer

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia CommBank Full time
Chief Engineer - Cloud Hosting

Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Sydney, Australia

  • You have a passion for cloud and want to make an impact quickly
  • We use your software engineering and cloud expertise to develop cloud platform engineering products at scale
  • Together we can build the bank of tomorrow today

Do work that matters

You will be part of the Cloud Hosting team that enables Cloud adoption across the Group. We put customers at the centre of everything we do and we want all our engineers to be empowered sources of ideas, involved in Design, Build, Challenge, and Run.

This is a significant opportunity to shape the craft of cloud platform engineering at Commbank, influence our culture, and perform impactful engineering at scale that benefits our customers, employees, and community.

See yourself in our team

Are you passionate about building innovative cloud solutions that create meaningful customer experiences? We seek a seasoned engineer to lead our Cloud Hosting Crew, responsible for the technical direction of our DevOps Hosting Platform, the flagship cloud hosting platform at CBA. Your role involves supporting the team to achieve our vision through:

  • Engineering thought leadership and cloud best practices
  • Automation of repetitive tasks to facilitate cloud adoption at scale
  • Designing a highly scalable cloud platform with native capabilities
  • Embedding security-first principles to protect applications and data, ensuring compliance and resilience

As a Chief Engineer, you will set high standards for engineering quality, provide technical expertise, and design solutions for complex challenges across multiple business units. You will lead by example, mentoring others, and driving the technical roadmap with a strong security and risk mindset.

We are interested in hearing from people who:

  • Have experience building cloud platforms at scale
  • Proven solution design and architecture skills
  • Broad technological background with core engineering skills
  • Experience leading teams in a DevSecOps environment
  • Pragmatic approach to addressing technical debt
  • Ability to define and execute technical strategy
  • Skilled in designing solutions for complex problems, including migrations and system upgrades
  • Encourage risk-taking, challenge the status quo, and promote diversity and inclusion

Tech Skills

Experience or exposure to tools, languages, and frameworks such as:

  • AWS Cloud Solution Architecture, Development, Security, IaC
  • C#
  • Microservices design and API development
  • CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, SST)
  • Automated testing and quality engineering
  • Solution and System Design
  • Application Security
  • Observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
  • Code quality practices and mentoring
  • Configuration management and containerisation

Working with us

We support your growth and provide an empowering environment to tackle challenges and explore opportunities. Whether passionate about customer service, data, or creativity, a career with CommBank offers diverse pathways.

If you are already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group, apply via Sidekick. For accessibility support, contact HR Direct at 1800 989 696.

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