Senior Platform Engineer
About the role
- You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative
- We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
- Together we will build tomorrow's bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation
Do work that matters
See yourself in the team
To be successful in this role, some of the broad roles and responsibilities may include
- Collaborate with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run 'platforms' that will deliver customer value at greater velocity, and safety.
- Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure it is reliable, secure and scalable. Where possible identify the opportunity to automate platform to serve as self-service.
- Ensure our platforms are loved by our software engineers, and continually evolve to embrace new technology and improve efficiency of our software engineers.
- Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices
- Write code to ensure that deployment and operations are automated, using languages such as python and go.
- Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.
We’re interested in hearing from people who
- Are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Challenge and Run
- Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality software and platforms.
- Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.
We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following
- Experience as Software Engineer/ DevOps/SRE/System Engineer in Cloud environment.
- Experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS. cluster management, monitoring, autoscaling and networking.
Experience with programming in Golang or Python.
- Experience working with Infrastructure as Code(CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience working with CI/CD (Codebuild, Github Actions, GitOps/ArgoCD)
- Understanding of DevOps/SRE Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Security.
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 our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. If this sounds like 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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Advertising End Date: 06/11/2026
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