What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Platform Engineer position at Commonwealth Bank of Australia?
See yourself in the team
Business Banking Technology has a vision of becoming Australia’s leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology. We work hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class empowered team who build technology solutions for the future.
Do work that matters
If you’re passionate about platform engineering, automation, and reliability, we’d love to hear from you!
We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Platform Engineer to take ownership of the maintenance, enhancement, and reliability of one of our most critical application platforms. This is an opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the performance, scalability, and security of a platform that is essential in delivering great outcomes for our customers and communities.
To be successful in this role, some of the broad roles and responsibilities may include:
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the cloud-based infrastructure supporting our mission-critical application. You will work closely with software engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement automation, improve observability, and optimise deployment pipelines. In summary, in this role, you may expect to:
Maintain, enhance, and optimise a mission-critical application platform hosted on AWS.
Implement and advocate for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance.
Design and manage robust CI/CD pipelines to support seamless and efficient software deployments.
Automate platform operations using PowerShell, YAML, and other scripting languages.
Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response mechanisms.
Collaborate with software development and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth platform operations.
Identify and implement automation opportunities to eliminate manual and repetitive tasks.
Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud best practices.
We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following:
Experience in Backend tech - .Net Core, C#, ASP.NET
Experienced in frontend tech – Reactjs
Expertise with Microservices, Restful API design pattern
DevOps and CI/CD – TeamCity, GitHub Copilot
AWS Cloud – EC2, SNS, S3, Lambda, Certification is a must
DevOps and CI/CD – TeamCity, GitHub Copilot, Octopus
AI & Machine learning and LLM knowledge is desired
Experience in Redux, Kafka, Banking domain is desired
Windows, powershell and IIS
Deep understanding of SRE principles - Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Observe, App Dynamics
Working with us
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 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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