Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

· We're embarking on an exciting modernisation program and are ready to push the boundaries and deliver engineering best practices to elevate the digital experience of our customers

· You have knowledge and experience that spans both development and architecture, including data engineering, modelling and cloud architecture

· Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading engineering, technology, and innovation.

Do Work That Matters

We're driving a major transformation of moving our infrastructure from On-Premises to AWS Cloud. This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms that power real-time and analytical use cases.

You'll design and deliver Platforms that enable personalised service, operational insights, and intelligent automation across multiple customer touchpoints.

See Yourself in Our Team

Our team manages Customer Engagement Engine which is an intelligent orchestration and decision-making engine that analyses insights and customer information to generate the Next Best Conversation (NBC) for each customer, across a range of inbound and outbound channels.

Roles & Responsibilities

· 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 standardised 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 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.

Skills Required

· Hands-on experience of implementing Infrastructure as Code on AWS Clod

· Strong exposure to AWS services: VPC, Subnets, EC2, Security Groups, NACLs, S3

· Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild or GitHub Actions

· Develop automated testing and deployment strategies

· Leverage Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

· Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible

· Demonstrate proficiency in Python or any scripting language

· Utilise containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker) and understand Kubernetes concepts for scalable deployments

· Experience in Platform's monitoring using tools such as Splunk/AppDynamics

Working with us

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

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 and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their 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 in the role you're interested in.

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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