See yourself in our Team
Technology is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of Commonwealth Bank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service.
Your Role
The role of Senior Platform Engineer is to design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments.
To achieve this, your role will require you to:
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Collaboratively work with engineering teams to design, build and run platforms that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety.
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Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure that it is reliable, secure and scalable. troubleshooting and resolving network incidents
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Integrating to public cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure, and hybrid cloud network integration.
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Ensure all services within the IT service portfolio are managed with consideration to network, capacity, platform, sociability/scalability factors and target architecture
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Support and Implementation of services & changes outside of regular business hours.
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After hours on-call (rotation basis)
Your Skills and Experiences
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Network Automation: Proficiency in automating network device configurations using Ansible, Terraform, Python, or similar tools.
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Routing & Switching: Proficiency in IP routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, Multicast, VLANs, VPC, Spanning Tree, BFD, VXLAN, eVPN, etc.
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Troubleshooting: Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues efficiently.
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Customer-Facing Skills: Ability to communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders, including BU customers, and vendors.
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Experience with Major Networking and Security Vendors: Hands-on experience with Cisco, Palo Alto, and other networking platforms.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is performed. 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 you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!
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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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services.
We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
