Senior Platform Engineer

Commonwealth Bank; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, run and evolve automation platforms and tooling across cloud environments. You will contribute to a secure, scalable Kubernetes-based PaaS, enabling faster delivery of business value by other engineers.

Ideal candidates will have Cloud, DevOps/SRE experience, container tech (Docker/Kubernetes), IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform/Pulumi) and CI/CD (CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD). Melbourne-based with flexible work options.

Qualifications

• Experience as Software Engineer/ DevOps/SRE/System Engineer in Cloud environment.
• Experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS. cluster management, monitoring, autoscaling and networking. Proficiency in Golang or Python.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run ‘platforms’ that will deliver customer value at greater velocity, and safety.
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure it is reliable, secure and scalable. Identify opportunities to automate platforms to serve as self-service.
• Ensure platforms are loved by software engineers and continually evolve to embrace new technology and improve efficiency.
• Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices.
• Write code to ensure deployment and operations are automated, using languages such as Python and Go.
• Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team and raise engineering capability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Docker/Kubernetes

Golang/Python

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

DevOps/SRE best practices

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

CodeBuild

ArgoCD

Job description

• You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative
• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

The role of Senior Platform Engineers is to Design, Build, Run & Evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments.

Help to make our platforms loved by our engineers! We are keen hear from platform engineers who are passionate about infrastructure as code and software eating the world!

See yourself in the team

Public Cloud Container Services (PCCS) team manages the group's Kubernetes-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) on AWS, offering production ready, secure, and managed Kubernetes environment to deploy containerised applications and cloud-native resources.

To be successful in this role, some of the broad roles and responsibilities may include:

• Collaborate with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run ‘platforms’ that will deliver customer value at greater velocity, and safety.
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure it is reliable, secure and scalable. Where possible identify the opportunity to automate platform to serve as self-service.
• Ensure our platforms are loved by our software engineers, and continually evolve to embrace new technology and improve efficiency of our software engineers.
• Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices
• Write code to ensure that deployment and operations are automated, using languages such as python and go.
• Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Challenge and Run
• Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality software and platforms.
• Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.

We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following:

• Experience as Software Engineer/ DevOps/SRE/System Engineer in Cloud environment.
• Experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS. cluster management, monitoring, autoscaling and networking. Experience with programming in Golang or Python.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code(CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
• Experience working with CI/CD (Codebuild, Github Actions, GitOps/ArgoCD)
• Understanding of DevOps/SRE Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Security.

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.

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