Staff Platform Engineer

Do work that matters:

The role of Senior Platform Engineers is to Design, Build, Run & 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. 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.  Help to make our platforms loved by our engineers! 

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are familiar with the modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins or Octopus Deloy.

• Have deep experience in Design, Develop, Deploy and Run high quality applications and systems.

• Are passionate about managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private or hybrid environment.

• Contributes to a culture where quality, inclusiveness and excellence are championed.

• Ensure our platforms are loved by our software engineers, and continually evolve our platforms to embrace new technology and improve the efficiency of our software engineers.

• Identify technology limitations in existing systems and associated processes, use software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements.

• Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.

Requirements of the role:

• 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.

• Write software that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.

• Manage and orchestrate workloads in AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, RDS) to ensure they are reliable, secure and scalable.

• Maintain observability solutions using monitoring, alerting and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Otel collectors.

• Understanding of DevOps/SRE Best Practices in Logging, Monitoring and Security.

• Systematic problem-solving approach to resolve complex production issues, conduct root cause analysis, post-mortems and implement long-term solutions.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the team.

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;  

• 5+ years of experience as a Platform/DevOps/SRE Engineer in AWS Cloud environment.

• Hands-on experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.

• Strong scripting and programming skills like Python, Go or Bash.

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Cloudformation.

• Strong experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus, Github Actions or similar.

• In-depth knowledge of SRE principles and best practices: defining CUJs, tracking SLOs and SLIs.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics

• Be able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively

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 Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne 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!
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