Principal Site Reliability Engineer

19 hours ago

Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia Commonwealth Bank Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year
  • You are passionate about SRE and systems engineering
  • We are undergoing one of Australia's largest digital transformations
  • Together we can reimagine banking for millions of customers

Do work that matters
We're accelerating our digital strategy with an ambition to provide customers with one of the best digital experiences of any company globally. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. Our teams ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of service outcomes for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award winning banking apps.

We're proud of our people and technology culture.

Our SRE team marries both, by applying Software Engineering principles to our operational services. We implement latest industry-wide methodologies around observability practices.

See yourself in our team
Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. Our teams ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of service outcomes for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award-winning banking apps.

As a Principal Software Engineer in our SRE team, you'll be a technical leader, designing and implementing large scale solutions, as well as influencing and engaging the organisation's senior stakeholders on modern best practices for improving reliability throughout the SDLC.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

We're Interested In Hearing From People Who

  • Are experts in partnering with senior stakeholders and leading a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation aligned to SRE principles.
  • Show deep experience in designing, developing, testing and supporting applications and systems.
  • Are passionate about managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment.
  • Love creating and developing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems.
  • Are adept at identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements.

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;

  • Software engineering, expert in at least one Programming language (e.g., Golang, Python)
  • Strong experience with modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy or similar; Strong public cloud experience in AWS , GCP or Azure
  • Experience leading teams of engineers driving outcomes using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics,
  • Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Linux internals, networking, containers, and troubleshooting
  • Experience in applying SRE Practices in large organisations and excellent Communication and Problem-Solving skill

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 Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today

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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