Senior Engineering Manager

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks an experienced SRE leader to guide a medium-sized team of engineers in Sydney. You will drive reliability, performance and scalable software delivery across our award-winning banking apps, applying SRE principles to observability and incident response.

You’ll mentor engineers, improve SLIs/SLOs, promote a positive engineering culture, and solve complex technical challenges at scale, contributing to Australia’s largest digital transformation.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE philosophy, principles and practices - creating/reviewing SLI, SLO and SLA's.
• Proven leadership to engineers and talent development.
• Experience designing, developing, testing and supporting applications and systems.
• Solid background in system and application performance testing, programming and monitoring performance and network communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage a medium-sized team of Engineers with goal setting, performance, development and engagement.
• Advocate embedding a positive engineering culture, ensuring standards and technical quality.
• Guide complex technical problem solving across services and systems.

Skills

SRE principles

Engineering leadership

Software design

Software engineering

System optimization

Performance testing

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

TeamCity

JavaScript

TypeScript

C++

C#

Go

Python

Unix

Networking

Job description

You are passionate about Site Reliability Engineering
We are undergoing one of Australia's largest digital transformations
Together we can reimagine banking for millions of customers

Do work that matters
We're accelerating our digital strategy with an ambition to provide customers with one of the best digital experiences of any company globally. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. Our teams ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of service outcomes for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award-winning banking apps.
We're proud of our people and technology culture.

Our SRE team marries both, by applying Software Engineering principles to our operational services. We implement latest industry-wide methodologies around observability practices.

See yourself in our team

Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. Our teams ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of service outcomes for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award-winning banking apps.

You'll manage a medium sized team of Engineers ensuring optimal goal setting, performance, career development and engagement. Advocate the embedding of a positive engineering culture, ensuring adherence to standards and technical quality, and guide complex technical problem solving.

We're interested in hearing from people who

• Have experience in SRE philosophy, principles and practices - creating/reviewing SLI, SLO and SLA's
• Provide effective leadership to engineers and establish mechanisms for peer-to-peer learning and mentoring. Attract, developed and motivated engineering talent
• Show expertise in designing, developing, testing and supporting applications and systems
• Have leveraged an excellent level of technical domain knowledge relevant to Chapter Area (e.g. Software Engineering). Empowered teams to manage their work appropriately, responded to queries, addressed impediments and problem solved technical issues.
• Are constantly identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements
• Have a solid background in system and application performance testing, programming and the ability to monitor, measure and optimise performance and network communication

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;

• CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins, BitBucket, TeamCity)
• Scripting/programming languages (i.e. JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, C#, Go, Python)
• Databases and networks
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems internals and / or networking.

Working with us

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