Senior Platform Engineer

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Do work that matters

CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.

Do work that matters

CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.

As a member of the Technology division, you will contribute to all aspects of the technology products and services we deliver, from technical strategy and design to coding to deployment to operation. Our products and services are leveraged across all Business Unit Platforms within the Bank to deliver industry-leading software including: CommBank App, Netbank, CommSee, CommSec, CommBiz and Commbank.com.au.

See yourself in our team

The Cloud movement at CommBank is going strong and continues to grow. We're looking for out of the box thinkers who want to use technology to work on real-world problems that have the potential to change the lives of our 17 million+ customers. The successful applicant will join a team tasked to manage the Temporal Platform which provides Durable Execution of Workflows for the bank. You will drive the automation and continuous improvement of the services through a DevSecOps model and ensure the platform is running 24*7.

Platform Engineers are accountable for building and operating the platform. The responsibilities of this role include:

• 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.
• Create a standardized set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
• 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.
• Actively participate in On-Call rosters from time to time to own resolution of any critical issues, ensuring the seamless operation of our systems, products and platforms.
  
  

We're interested in hearing from people who:

Note: 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.

• Have strong SDLC experience across system design, coding/scripting, testing, CI/CD, Observability, Security
• Have very good communication skills (verbal and written).
• Have a growth mindset and can drive continuous improvements.
• Have experience building platforms that can scale.
• Have strong experience with AWS.
• Is familiar with various scripting/programming languages like Go, Python
• Have experience with Workflow Orchestration technologies like Apache Airflow, Temporal, Step Functions
• Participate in on-call roster.
  
  

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.

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, Adelaide, Brisbane 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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Advertising End Date: 20/08/2025Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology

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