Commonwealth Bank

Staff Platform Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer

Commonwealth Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerEC2GoGrafanaJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinux.NETPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • design and evolve platforms: develop and maintain reusable infrastructure, templates, and tooling that support application deployment, observability, and operational resilience
  • automation and Infrastructure as Code: automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments
  • collaboration with product teams: partner with internal and third-party engineers to co-design and operate platforms that improve delivery velocity, quality, and safety
  • operational support: participate in on-call rotations and incident response workflows to ensure availability of critical services
  • influence over ownership: focus on influencing and directing engineering practices across vendor teams to align with the banks and strive for automation, observability, and governance practices
  • cross-functional governance: participate in forums such as Change, Risk & Security, and Service Management to ensure alignment with the bank’s engineering and operational standards
  • blended responsibilities: overlap with SRE data and systems Engineering, particularly in areas like observability, DevOps integration, and service reliability
  • continuous improvement: perform complex problem resolution, root cause analysis and identification of improvement opportunities

Requirements

  • proven experience in working with engineering and operational teams, especially cloud data engineering platforms
  • proven experience in operational engagements required to bring a product to life (e.g. Risk, Security, Incident, Change, Problem, Monitoring, Supplier Governance, Defect Review, Scalability, Automation)
  • excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • problem-solving mindset with a focus on automation and continuous process improvement
  • proactive approach, constantly seeking innovative solutions to complex technical challenges
  • offer mentorship to junior engineers, contributing effectively both as an individual and as a team member.
  • experience working with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
  • experience with developing and/or deploying containerized applications
  • experience with programming in Golang, C# or Python
  • experience with Cloud/AWS fundamental service (IAM, VPC, EC2, ASG, etc)
  • experience with container technology, Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
  • experience with Source control, CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory and Jenkins
  • experience in integrating a platform with enterprise systems using Cloud integration patterns ( AWS PrivateLink, API Gateway, direct S3 access)
  • monitoring tools such as Observe, Prometheus, Grafana, and AppDynamics
  • understanding of DevSecOps/SRE Best Practices.
  • advanced knowledge in Linux internal and be able to troubleshoot complex issues
  • AWS Architect certified
  • experience in financial domain is a plus
  • experience with application development (.NET, Java, Python) is a plus.
Benefits
  • flexible work arrangements
  • professional development opportunities

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Hard skills
Infrastructure as CodeCloudFormationTerraformPulumiGolangC#PythonDockerKubernetesAWS
Soft skills
communicationproblem-solvingproactive approachmentorshipcollaboration
Certifications
AWS Architect