Senior Active Directory Platform Engineer – Hybrid Identity

cba; Hobart, Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Staff Platform Engineer - Active Directory to own the technical direction of enterprise AD in a hybrid identity environment. You will design, build and improve secure identity services across on-premises and AWS, while mentoring teams and driving automation.

Join a senior individual contributor role focused on modernising Active Directory, implementing secure patterns, and shaping the identity architecture across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Deep Active Directory experience across forest and domain design.
• Experience with hybrid AD environments spanning on-premises and AWS.
• Strong knowledge of security hardening and identity protection.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior technical authority for AD across on-premises and AWS.
• Design hybrid directory topologies, including DC placement and replication.
• Lead modernization of AD and hybrid identity integration.
• Champion automation and infrastructure as code patterns.
• Mentor engineers and align on identity designs.

Skills

Active Directory expertise

Hybrid identity

Terraform

AWS Directory Service

Scripting/Automation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Security best practices

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub/GitHub Actions

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Staff Platform Engineer - Active Directory to own the technical direction of enterprise AD in a hybrid identity environment. You will design, build and improve secure identity services across on-premises and AWS, while mentoring teams and driving automation.

Join a senior individual contributor role focused on modernising Active Directory, implementing secure patterns, and shaping the identity architecture across the organisation.