Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

• 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 Product Crew within Retail Technology. We are responsible for leading our retail end-to-end digital-first customer experience strategy, 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 Public Cloud Modernisation transformation within the Core Banking Product 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 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 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;

• AWS Services: In depth knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, Step function, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Cloudwatch, EKS

• Kafka: Experience with Kafka (self-managed or Confluent), including schema management and security (SSL, ACLs).

• Container technologies: Deep knowledge of Linux systems and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes a plus).

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

• IaC Tools: Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools like AWS CloudFormation,

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

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

• Engineering Tooling: Artifactory, Synk, Docker

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.