Staff Platform Engineer

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank – Technology Full time $125,000 - $175,000 per year

Staff Platform Engineer (Secure Network Services)

Multiple Locations - Sydney/ Melbourne

  • You are highly experienced in building customer focused solutions
  • We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create new solution
  • Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters:

The purpose of this role is to provide design, implementation and support in order to drive excellence, quality and performance for an IT service, across one or multiple portfolios.

About the role and team:

  • The Network Security Engineering team is responsible for delivering network security requirements and implementation to achieve business outcomes.
  • The GTS Networks team is responsible for delivering, supporting and continuously improving the Bank's Global Network and Security services.
  • Our Global Technology Services (GTS) 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

We're interested in hearing from people who:

  • Is an expert at the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Change, and Run
  • Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality modern solutions.
  • Contributes to a culture where quality, inclusiveness and excellence are championed.
  • Lead efforts to embed security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows
  • Act as a technical mentor and thought leader for platform engineering standards and architecture
  • Perform security assessments across platform components.
  • Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives

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;

  • Extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience of F5 BIG-IP, F5OS, LTM, DNS modules and iRule development
  • Possess very strong troubleshooting skills as well as a strong TCP and HTTP understanding as it pertains to packet inspection and TCP flow in the Network and Application flows
  • Good understanding of network concepts, routing and switching and firewall security policy management
  • Excellent understanding and exposure to network automation and infrastructure-as-code (IaC), CI/CD, DevSecOps
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge in DevSecOps (e.g Ansible, Python, Terraform, Github, IaC, APIs etc)
  • Possess advanced knowledge in source control management such as GitHub, GitLab
  • AWS: Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Serverless, Step Functions or any other services
  • Experience in creation of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, JENKINS/TeamCity or similar orchestrators
  • Discovery and validation of network connectivity requirements using enterprise tools such Observe, Splunk, SolarWinds, Qualys, and Grafana
  • Contribute to the documenting of current infrastructure services in order to ensure better future technology roadmaps
  • Managing escalated issues, incidents & problems for network and security services

If you thrive on creating lasting, impactful technology and want to be part of an inclusive team that values innovation and growth, we'd love to hear from you

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

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.

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to build a team of people who represent the rich diversity of our customers and communities. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to apply. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank.

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

We're determined to make a real difference for Australia's first peoples. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest), 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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