Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes & IaC

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work locations

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, run, and evolve tooling, infrastructure, and templates that empower engineers to deliver business value quickly and securely. You will contribute to a Kubernetes-based PaaS on AWS, focusing on automation, reliability, and self-service capabilities.

The role prioritizes infrastructure as code, cloud-native platforms, and collaboration across teams to raise engineering capability and outcomes.

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 platform to self-serve where possible.
• Ensure platforms are loved by software engineers and continually evolve with new technology to improve efficiency.
• Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications with best practices.
• Write code to automate deployment and operations using languages such as Python and Go.
• Participate in cross-group activities to foster a one-team culture and elevate engineering capabilities.

Job description

Commonwealth Bank is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, run, and evolve tooling, infrastructure, and templates that empower engineers to deliver business value quickly and securely. You will contribute to a Kubernetes-based PaaS on AWS, focusing on automation, reliability, and self-service capabilities.

The role prioritizes infrastructure as code, cloud-native platforms, and collaboration across teams to raise engineering capability and outcomes.