Principal Platform Engineer

This is a Principal Platform Engineer role with Commonwealth Bank based in Sydney, NSW, AU
== Commonwealth Bank ==

Role Seniority - senior

More about the Principal Platform Engineer role at Commonwealth Bank

Principal Platform Engineer

• You are highly experienced in platform engineering (AWS, IaC & Automation)

• We are a team of big thinkers, pushing the boundaries in Cyber Security

• Together we can create industry leading digital solutions that impact millions of customers

Do work that matters

The Cybersecurity Engineering group safeguards the organization by delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing systems that protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Our mission is to support cybersecurity objectives through innovative engineering solutions and secure operational practices.

See yourself in our team

Our mandate is to protect the business' platforms, systems, data, digital assets, and reputation across our cloud and datacentre infrastructure. As a Principal Platform Engineer in our cyber engineering team, you will be the hands-on technical lead driving the implementation of complex technical solutions to improve the security of the bank's platforms and systems.

You will champion the adoption of DevSecOps practices, automation and reliability.

We're Interested in hearing from people who 

• Provide strategic leadership in shaping the technical vision for DevSecOps automation and reliability, driving innovation and best practices across our crew and the Group.

• Lead and collaborate with platform engineering squads to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability through the implementation of DevSecOps practice.

• Lead the creation and maintenance of advanced automation solutions for continuous integration, deployment, monitoring, and incident response, ensuring a high level of system reliability and operational efficiency.

• Spearhead the development and implementation infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using differing tools and software, ensuring consistent and reproducible infrastructure deployments.

• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning within the DevOps community.

• Champion the establishment and improvement of monitoring and alerting systems, employing tools such as Splunk, Grafana, to proactively identify and address performance issues.

• Drive post-incident reviews and root cause analyses, implementing preventative measures to enhance overall system resilience.

• Collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the CI/CD pipelines, platform, and applications.

• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures.

Technical 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;

• Expertise working with AWS Infrastructure.

• In depth understanding of scripting/programming languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python etc, as well as good Windows/Linux Server experience.

• Expertise working with Infrastructure as Code e.g Lambda, Cloudformation, CDK, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline highly regarded.

• Experience with and knowledge of CI/CD and automation tools like Github, GitHub Action, TeamCity, CI/CD pipeline desirable.

• Kubernetes clusters, and operations.

• Automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.

• Source control, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, Octopus

• Observability with Grafana and Prometheus.

Working with us

Whether you're passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in the Sydney 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.

Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities.

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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Before we jump into the responsibilities of the role. No matter what you come in knowing, you'll be learning new things all the time and the Commonwealth Bank team will be there to support your growth.

Please consider applying even if you don't meet 100% of what's outlined

Key Responsibilities

• Providing strategic leadership
• Leading platform engineering squads
• Mentoring team members

Key Strengths

• Platform engineering
• DevSecOps practices
• Automation solutions
• Scripting languages
• CI/CD tools
• Kubernetes

Why Commonwealth Bank is partnering with Hatch on this role. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that's right for them. So when you apply you have the chance to show more than just your resume.

A Final Note: This is a role with Commonwealth Bank not with Hatch.

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