Jobs at Reserve Bank of Australia

Drive CMDB data quality, governance, remediation, ownership, and accountability across a critical technology portfolio. Maintain accurate Configuration Items in ServiceNow, develop health metrics and reporting, implement certification and attestation processes, educate stakeholders on Configuration Management and RACI responsibilities, investigate Discovery issues with the ITOM Specialist, and improve asset commissioning and decommissioning processes.

Leads a strategic, risk-based IT audit portfolio across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, resilience, and technology change. Provides independent assurance, evaluates control effectiveness, reports findings to executives and committees, and manages issue validation. The role also leads audit professionals, improves methodology and quality frameworks, applies data analytics, and strengthens technology assurance across a regulated organization.

Coordinate release management for critical payments settlement systems across non-production and production environments. Responsibilities include maintaining release schedules, coordinating technology changes, managing risks and dependencies, conducting readiness and quality checks, communicating plans to stakeholders, supporting governance forums, and improving release processes. The role requires collaboration with technical delivery and testing teams and effective use of release management tools and practices.

Lead end-to-end infrastructure decommissioning and related transformation initiatives through integrated planning, reporting, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication. Coordinate matrixed teams, internal and external delivery partners, dependencies, milestones, and decisions. Support commercial and vendor engagements while driving delivery momentum across a major technology modernization program.

Supports enterprise IT operations through monitoring, automation, incident response, system requests, and first-level support. Configures monitoring software, schedulers, alerting thresholds, infrastructure objects, and APIs while creating PowerShell scripts. Maintains documentation, improves operational efficiency, and supports the F5 Obsolescence Program across Windows, Linux, virtual machine, container, network, application, and database environments. The role is hybrid in Sydney and may require occasional work outside standard business hours.

The Senior Network Engineer will provision, maintain, secure, test, monitor, and optimize network infrastructure across Cisco, ACI, wireless, SD-WAN, Azure, F5, and firewall environments. Responsibilities include incident and security response, traffic analysis, vulnerability remediation, automation, documentation, infrastructure commissioning, wireless migrations, and project delivery. The role supports network refresh initiatives and collaborates with cybersecurity teams and stakeholders to improve network performance, resilience, and security.

Provides second-line risk oversight, challenge, and assurance for cyber security, technology, and transformation initiatives. Assesses emerging risks, control weaknesses, governance gaps, mitigation strategies, and risk acceptance decisions. Leads risk reviews and thematic assessments, evaluates cyber risk frameworks, prepares executive reporting, and influences senior stakeholders to improve cyber resilience and operational risk outcomes.

Build, secure, and operate hybrid Azure and on-premises platform services. Manage Terraform infrastructure, automation, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and DevSecOps controls. Support identity and access management, secrets, vulnerability remediation, logging, security reviews, compliance, and platform reliability. Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, and business stakeholders while resolving platform issues and improving service delivery.

Manage the strategy, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and lifecycle management of enterprise integration services. The role supports highly available, secure 24/7 operations through integration architecture, system upgrades, patching, migration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cyber security controls. Responsibilities also include integration governance, documentation, asset management, audit support, resilience improvements, and coaching stakeholders on best practices.

Provides expert network infrastructure management, troubleshooting, security hardening, capacity planning, performance testing, and incident response. Designs and implements network improvements, automation scripts, documentation, and acceptance tests. Supports Cisco, firewall, F5 BIG-IP, ACI, SD-WAN, and Azure environments while collaborating with cybersecurity teams to remediate vulnerabilities. The role includes occasional work at a business resumption site and participation in an on-call roster.

Administer and maintain the enterprise ServiceNow platform: monitor health and performance, manage users/roles/security, configure workflows/business rules/forms/UI policies, resolve incidents and defects, support upgrades/patches/releases, ensure compliance and platform stability, and collaborate with analysts, developers and vendors to drive continuous improvement.

Senior Business Analyst responsible for strengthening the resilience, controls, governance, processes, and systems supporting Australia’s RITS payments infrastructure. The role leads business analysis across infrastructure transformation projects, including requirements management, process optimisation, solution evaluation, testing, implementation planning, change management, and stakeholder communication. It also contributes to operational risk improvements and mentors the RBA’s Business Analysis community.

Support Finance data initiatives through data analysis, process investigation, stakeholder engagement, and reporting automation. Develop Power BI and IBM Planning Analytics dashboards, validate and reconcile data, investigate root causes, assess data quality, analyze trends, and conduct current-state, future-state, and gap analyses to improve Finance processes and decision-making.

Conduct risk-based internal audits assessing governance, risk management, and internal controls across diverse business areas. Evaluate control effectiveness, identify risks and gaps, communicate audit outcomes, contribute to technology and IT control reviews, and support improvements to audit methodologies using data analytics.

Provide expert network management, troubleshooting, automation, security hardening, capacity planning, performance testing, and infrastructure support. Use Terraform and Python to automate secure network services across multi-datacentre environments. Manage Cisco and firewall infrastructure, analyze network traffic, participate in incident and security response, commission communications systems, and collaborate with cybersecurity teams to remediate vulnerabilities.

Lead the planning and execution of infrastructure decommissioning across virtual and physical servers, compute, storage, SAN, and supporting services. Validate application dependencies, migrations, backups, retention, and business readiness before retirement. Coordinate with infrastructure, security, network, storage, operations, and asset teams while maintaining CMDB records, risk assessments, implementation and rollback plans, CAB submissions, and operational documentation. Support post-change validation, hyper-care, sign-off, and improvements to decommissioning procedures.

Supports and enhances critical Australian payments and settlement infrastructure. Responsibilities include operating high-availability payment platforms, maintaining messaging and integration environments, troubleshooting connectivity and system issues, supporting Linux-based infrastructure, and contributing to projects involving virtualization, networking, automation, and enterprise integration.

Lead financial risk modelling, stress testing, scenario analysis, model validation, and risk reporting for the Reserve Bank’s balance sheet. The role develops risk quantification capability, advises stakeholders and senior decision-makers on financial risks, coordinates monitoring, and mentors analysts. It requires quantitative expertise, financial markets knowledge, familiarity with value-at-risk or expected shortfall, R programming, risk frameworks, and strong stakeholder communication.

Two-year graduate program supporting operational risk, compliance, governance and resilience across Australia’s critical payment infrastructure. Responsibilities include identifying and assessing operational risks, monitoring controls, supporting incident investigations, conducting root cause analysis, planning remediation, and enhancing risk and compliance frameworks. Candidates will receive structured training and work with experienced risk professionals in the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments Settlements team.

Lead data science and AI research addressing central banking, economic, financial, and public policy questions. Translate research into analytical tools, models, and capabilities for policymakers, collaborate across economics and policy teams, publish research, and provide technical leadership and mentoring. The role also helps shape the Bank’s data science platforms, methodologies, and broader analytical capabilities.