Senior Platform Engineer

1 day ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and running tools, infrastructure, and capabilities that our engineers use to deliver business value.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work collaboratively 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. You will also be responsible for writing code that automates running our infrastructure and environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Write software that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
  • Manage and orchestrate workloads in AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, RDS) to ensure they are reliable, secure, and scalable.
  • Maintain observability solutions using monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Otel collectors.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach to resolve complex production issues, conduct root cause analysis, post-mortems, and implement long-term solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the team.
Requirements
  • Familiarity with modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, or Octopus Deploy.
  • Deep experience in design, development, deployment, and running high-quality applications and systems.
  • Passion for managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private, or hybrid environment.
  • Ability to identify technology limitations in existing systems and associated processes, use software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements.
  • Natural drive to educate, communicate, and positively influence various stakeholder groups, including high-level executives.
Tech 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:

  • Solid experience as a Platform/DevOps/SRE Engineer in AWS Cloud environment.
  • Hands-on experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
  • Strong scripting and programming skills like Python, Go, or Bash.
  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like CloudFormation.
  • Strong experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus, GitHub Actions, or similar.
  • In-depth knowledge of SRE principles and best practices: defining CUJs, tracking SLOs, and SLIs.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics.


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