Lead Platform Engineer — AI‑Driven AWS & Kubernetes

Commonwealth Bank; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Operational Risk & Compliance Crew to engineer our AI-enabled risk platforms. You will work within a squad delivering agentic AI capabilities into risk management processes that operate across the bank.

Here, you'll create, manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You'll have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster and more secure.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS-based platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, particularly EKS, and containerised deployments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation. Terraform experience is also relevant.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
• A strong automation mindset and the ability to improve platform reliability, consistency and engineering efficiency.
• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Observe or AppDynamics.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve reusable cloud infrastructure, platform tooling and automation that support secure, scalable application delivery.
• Enable engineering teams through CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and modern platform practices across AWS environments.
• Deploy and operate containerised workloads using Kubernetes, EKS and related platform tooling.
• Improve observability, monitoring, resilience and operational support across critical services.
• Partner with internal and third-party engineers to improve delivery quality, speed and safety.
• Contribute to governance, service management, incident response and continuous improvement across the platform.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform / CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Join the Operational Risk & Compliance Crew to engineer our AI-enabled risk platforms. You will work within a squad delivering agentic AI capabilities into risk management processes that operate across the bank.

Here, you'll create, manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You'll have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster and more secure.