Staff Platform Engineer / Lead Devops Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer / Lead Devops 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 centre of what we do

Do work that matters

As someone who never shies away from a challenge, let us present ours to you. We’re working to re-architect and modernise our delivery landscape, enabling our engineers to provide seamless solutions to millions of people. And we want your help.  

Here, you’ll create, manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You’ll have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster and more secure.

The size and nature of our systems and the pace at which our customers’ expectations are changing means we’re always seeking out the latest technology, experimenting and pushing the boundaries. Our work is key to future proofing one of Australia’s largest companies.

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.

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of our Engineering practice and delivering new capabilities to the one of the most critical applications in Finance technology. This roles focus is on operational excellence through the design, build, run, and evolution of foundational tools, infrastructure and automation working with both bank and partner teams. This role will influence engineering practices across teams, participate in governance forums, and ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards.
Overall, to be successful in this role you will:

• Design and evolve platforms: Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure, templates, and tooling that support application deployment, observability, and operational resilience

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments

• Collaboration with product teams: Partner with internal and third-party engineers to co-design and operate platforms that improve delivery velocity, quality, and safety.

• Operational support: Participate in on-call rotations and incident response workflows to ensure availability of critical services.

• Influence over ownership: Focus on influencing and directing engineering practices across vendor teams to align with the banks and strive for automation, observability, and governance practices.

• Cross-functional governance: Participate in forums such as Change, Risk & Security, and Service Management to ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards.

• Blended responsibilities: Overlap with SRE data and systems Engineering, particularly in areas like observability, DevOps integration, and service reliability.

• Continuous improvement: Perform complex problem resolution, root cause analysis and identification of improvement opportunities.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Have proven experience in working with engineering and operational teams, especially cloud data engineering platforms

• Have proven experience in operational engagements required to bring a product to life (e.g. Risk, Security, Incident, Change, Problem, Monitoring, Supplier Governance, Defect Review, Scalability, Automation)

• Have excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• Have a problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement

• Exhibit a proactive approach, constantly seeking innovative solutions to complex technical challenges.

• Offer mentorship to junior engineers, contributing effectively both as an individual and as a team member.

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;

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi).

• Experience with developing and/or deploying containerized applications

• Experience with programming in Golang, C# or Python.

• Experience with Cloud/AWS fundamental service (IAM, VPC, EC2, ASG, etc)

• Experience with container technology, Docker and Kubernetes/EKS

• Experience with Source control, CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Jenkins

• Monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana, and AppDynamics

• Understanding of DevSecOps/SRE Best Practices.

• Advanced knowledge in Linux internal and be able to troubleshoot complex issues

• AWS Architect certified

• Experience in financial domain is a plus

• Experience with application development (.NET, Java, Python) is a plus 

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 all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane 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!