Staff Platform Engineer - SAP HANA

• You are highly experienced in building customer focussed solutions

• We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create new solution

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters:
Retail Technology Services (RBS) provides the underpinning technology for simple, convenient and affordable banking and general insurance products and services to personal and private bank customers, helping them manage their everyday banking needs, buy a home, protect their assets or invest for the future.
This role is a part of our Core Banking Platform Crew within Retail Technology. We are responsible for Core Banking Platform maintaining highly scalable and resilient systems that support our retail and business customers as part of their everyday needs, driving innovation, improving customer engagement and creating new business opportunities through partnerships, ventures and the Group’s digital ecosystem.
About the role and team:
We are looking to hire a Staff Platform Engineer to develop and deliver the vision for our SAP Core Banking System on HANA and Cloud Modernisation transformation within the Core Banking Platform Crew in Retail Technology.  This high availability, modernised platform powers many critical elements of the customer experience for our products.  
We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Is an expert at the Full Cycle Implementation and Cloud transformation model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Change, and Run

• Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality modern solutions.

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

• Lead efforts to embed security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows.

• Act as a technical mentor and thought leader for platform engineering standards and architecture.

• Perform security assessments across platform components.

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

Tech Skills:
We use a broad range of Systems, 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;

• SAP HANA Skills: Core SAP HANA Administration with deep knowledge on HANA Architecture and Hands on experience in SAP HANA High Availability and DR, HSR Replication Setup, HANA revision and patch upgrades, Installations, Table partition, Scale-up and Scale-out architecture for OLAP, Table redistribution, Performance tuning and dump analysis, Backup / recovery through backint and file systems, Point in time recovery of logs, log shipping, Failover and Failover through Cluster (preferably PaceMaker).

• SAP Skills: SAP Basis and technical administration of SAP systems, parameter changes, kernel upgrades, Support pack upgrades. Monitor and optimize the performance of SAP HANA databases, including SQL performance tuning and adjusting system parameters. Oversee database activities such as data loading, table management, and data archiving – Experience in Data Custodian would be advantageous.

• AWS Services: Knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, Route 53, Cloudwatch, FSx ONTAP.

• SSLs: Experience with SAP, HANA, AWS SSL certificates including management and design.

• Container technologies: Deep knowledge of RHEL (Red Hat Linux) systems and PackeMaker cluster.

• Scripting: Experience in automation and Scripting (Bash, Python) would be good.

• IaC Tools: Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools like Ansible & Terraform.

• Version Control: Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub, GitHub Actions

• Monitoring & Observability: Expertise in tools like Solution Manager, Wily, Grafana, Prometheus

• ITIL – ServiceNow – Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Capacity Management. 

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.