Principal Platform Engineer – Storage Engineering
Commonwealth Bank
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise storage platforms, including block, file, object, and backup storage solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.
- Act as the principal technical lead and solution architect, guiding teams through complex storage deployments, migrations, and optimisation initiatives.
- Own the technical strategy and roadmap for storage services, ensuring alignment to broader platform engineering and cloud transformation strategies.
- Collaborate closely with vendors, engineering squads, and internal stakeholders to ensure performance, scalability, and seamless integration of storage platforms.
- Drive adoption of automation and infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to streamline provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Ensure storage platforms incorporate robust observability, telemetry, and monitoring, leveraging technologies such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Maintain high standards of resilience, availability, compliance, and operational excellence across all storage services.
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership across storage engineering and operations teams, uplifting capability and driving best practice engineering.
- Play a key role in major incident and problem management, including diagnosing complex storage issues and guiding recovery efforts in critical scenarios.
Requirements
- Significant experience in platform, infrastructure, or storage engineering at enterprise scale.
- Deep technical expertise across enterprise storage and backup technologies, including VMAX, Data Domain, Commvault, Netapp, ObjectScale and related enterprise storage arrays.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing high-performance, highly available storage architectures in large, complex environments.
- Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-based storage patterns.
- Strong experience with VMware on-prem environments.
- Proficiency with automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible) for consistent and repeatable storage platform provisioning.
- Experience with observability tooling and integrating monitoring into platform design.
- Demonstrated success in leading technical teams, influencing architecture decisions, and delivering complex engineering solutions.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and integrity.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with regular in-person collaboration in office, including critical vendor and engineering workshops.
- Dynamic, delivery-focused environment with multiple concurrent programs and high expectations for technical leadership.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
enterprise storagebackup technologieshigh-performance storage architecturescloud storage patternsautomationinfrastructure as codeobservabilitymonitoringstorage migrationsstorage optimisation
Soft skills
technical mentorshipleadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementautonomyintegritycollaborationproblem managementinfluencing architecture decisionsdriving best practices