Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

• You are determined to stay ahead of the latest Cloud technologies

• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• Together we can place customers at the center of what we do

Do work that matters

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and operating the tools, infrastructure, and platforms that enable our engineers to deliver software reliably, securely, and efficiently.

You will collaborate closely with product and platform teams to deliver scalable, observable, and secure infrastructure, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering practices.

See yourself in our team

The cloud movement at CommBank is going strong and continues to grow. We're looking for out of the box thinkers who want to use technology to work on real-world problems that have the potential to change the lives of our 17 million+ customers.

You will be part of a team building the next generation of the bank's customer data platform.

We're interested in hearing from people who:

• Can collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to design and implement platform capabilities that improve developer experience and operational excellence.

• Have experience building and operating internal developer platforms with a focus on automation, self-service, and reliability.

• Can contribute to the delivery of platform tooling using Agile methodologies and cloud-native technologies.

• Are skilled in debugging and resolving issues across distributed systems.

• Can communicate clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Can support and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Skills Required:

This is a highly technical role requiring strong expertise across platform engineering disciplines. You'll be a great fit if you have experience in:

• Working with AWS and cloud-native architectures.

• Designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

• Writing automation and tooling in Bash, Python, or Golang.

• Managing containerised environments using ECS and/or EKS.

• Implementing observability solutions using tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and CloudWatch.

• Applying platform security principles, including IAM and automated compliance controls.

• Collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality, reliable platform capabilities.

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 everyday.  

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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