Senior Platform Engineer

See yourself in the team

We're building tomorrow’s bank today. This means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

The role of Platform Engineers is to design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities to deliver business value, and write code to drive automation in running our infrastructure and environments.

Do work that matters

CommBank Data is the emerging Cloud data platform solution consisting of AWS native services and capabilities that ingests data from multiple source systems and executes business use cases for AI, advanced analytics (machine learning) at scale, across the comprehensive dataset and facilitates data discovery by advanced analytics users.

This role will see you become part of the Data Platform Greenfields crew, a part of the wider Data Engineering and Data Platform Chapter. The crew is accountable and responsible for the platform’s availability, performance, security and lifecycle management.

Collaboratively we work to design, build and run ‘platforms’ to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. 

To be successful in this role, some of the broad roles and responsibilities may include:

• Expertise in cloud infrastructure design and operations.

• Develop platform architecture that aligns with Business needs and support system resources in AWS environment across the Group, focusing on high quality, security, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Comprehensive understanding of driving automation through understanding processes and implementing improvements.

• Support requests related to platform technical implementation, responding to incidents/problems and perform root cause analysis.

• Proactively identify and develop solutions to mitigate platform risks against system failure, data loss, inappropriate disclosure or use of data, malicious attacks etc.

• Manage ongoing environment expansion and life cycle, e.g. system upgrades, security patching.

• Develop and maintain runbooks, document system configuration and standard operating procedures.

We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following skills:

• Passion for designing, developing, deploying, and running high-quality software and platforms.

• Have experience in core AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Lamda and with AWS Managed services - Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB and Redshift .

• Proficient in Python scripting, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks, manage configurations and troubleshooting essential.

• Deep understanding and hands on experience on AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution essential.

• Proficient Linux and Unix Configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience delivering scalable solutions on infrastructure as a code (IaC) using Terraform/AWS Cloud Formation.

• Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins TeamCity CI/CD pipeline, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild to automate deployments.

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. 

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