Senior SRE Leader — Scale Banking Platform

Narooma; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is expanding its Site Reliability Engineering team in Melbourne to ensure the highest standards of service for our digital banking platforms. You will lead a medium-sized team, drive SRE practices, and align SLIs/SLOs with business outcomes, while championing observability and rapid incident response.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape engineering culture, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver reliable, scalable services for millions of customers in a fast-paced transformation.

Qualifications

• Experience with SRE philosophy, SLIs/SLOs/SLA design and reviews
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and talent development skills
• Design, develop, test, and support distributed applications and systems
• Identify limitations and drive scalable, sustainable improvements
• Background in performance testing, monitoring, and optimizing networks/calls

Responsibilities

• Lead a medium-sized engineering team with goal setting and performance development.
• Foster a positive engineering culture while ensuring standards and quality.
• Guide complex technical problem solving across systems and services.
• Mentor engineers and attract top engineering talent.

Skills

CI/CD tools

Scripting languages

Databases & networks

UNIX systems

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

TeamCity

Job description

CommBank is expanding its Site Reliability Engineering team in Melbourne to ensure the highest standards of service for our digital banking platforms. You will lead a medium-sized team, drive SRE practices, and align SLIs/SLOs with business outcomes, while championing observability and rapid incident response.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape engineering culture, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver reliable, scalable services for millions of customers in a fast-paced transformation.