Staff Platform Engineer, AI Security & Cloud

CommBank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer, AI Security to design and build shared platform capabilities for secure AI workloads at enterprise scale. This hands-on technical leadership role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud, security and AI.

You will translate security requirements into robust, automated services and engage with security engineers, AI platform teams, cloud and infrastructure engineers, architects and application teams to drive secure production systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in platform, software, cloud or site reliability engineering with a track record of building shared platforms.
• Ability to balance technical direction with hands-on implementation and mentoring across teams.
• Experience with security controls integrated into platforms and application paths will help you succeed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and engineering of platform capabilities that protect AI applications, services and workloads.
• Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, templates and automation for policy enforcement and telemetry.
• Design integration patterns for securing AI traffic, model endpoints and agentic architectures.
• Establish engineering standards and guardrails using automated testing, IaC, configuration-as-code and modern CD practices.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across security, cloud, platform and application teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud computing

Security engineering

AI security

Technical leadership

Go/Python/Java/TypeScript

Tools

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Distributed tracing

Policy-as-code

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer, AI Security to design and build shared platform capabilities for secure AI workloads at enterprise scale. This hands-on technical leadership role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud, security and AI.

You will translate security requirements into robust, automated services and engage with security engineers, AI platform teams, cloud and infrastructure engineers, architects and application teams to drive secure production systems.