Lead Platform Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is expanding its risk platform engineering team to deliver AI-enabled risk platforms and AWS-first infrastructure. You will work on an enterprise-grade Risk AI Platform, enabling scalable, secure delivery and strong API standards across the bank’s risk management ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists and engineers to evolve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and governance while improving reliability and security for risk processes

Qualifications

• Strong AWS-based platform engineering or cloud infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and EKS deployment experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
• Familiarity 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 Platform

Kubernetes

EKS

CloudFormation

IaC

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Observability

Python

Golang

C#

Bedrock

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is expanding its risk platform engineering team to deliver AI-enabled risk platforms and AWS-first infrastructure. You will work on an enterprise-grade Risk AI Platform, enabling scalable, secure delivery and strong API standards across the bank’s risk management ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists and engineers to evolve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and governance while improving reliability and security for risk processes