Principal Platform Engineer – AWS Cloud (Data Protection & Storage)
Your Impact and Contribution
As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our database and DevSecOps strategy, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our database environments. You will play a key role in automating processes, enhancing security through DevSecOps practices, deploying monitoring tools, and maintaining high-quality documentation to ensure our infrastructure remains robust, resilient, and reliable.
As part of the Data Protection & Storage (DPSS) crew, you’ll work with a highly skilled team of engineers and collaborate in an environment that fosters innovation and upholds engineering excellence. In this solution-focused team, you will contribute to the ongoing delivery of world-class outcomes.
The Role
This Principal Platform Engineer role is a hands-on technical leadership position specialising in backup, restore, and cyber resilience within AWS. You will be accountable for the design and evolution of scalable, secure, and highly resilient backup platforms, with a strong focus on Commvault, AWS-native services, and air-gapped cyber recovery environments.
You will set technical direction, establish repeatable patterns, uplift engineering standards, and actively mentor other engineers across the DPSS and broader cloud platform community.
Key Responsibilities
Design and operate enterprise backup and restore platforms using Commvault on AWS
Engineer air-gapped and isolated recovery environments to support ransomware resilience
Build and optimise restore strategies, including cross-account recovery
Develop AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code and DevSecOps practices
Work at expert level across AWS services including S3, EC2, RDS, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeArtifact, Guard Duty, Wiz and others
Strengthen security, reliability, and observability of backup and recovery platforms
Provide principal-level technical leadership, design assurance, and mentoring, influencing platform direction across multiple squads and crews
Partner closely with security and risk stakeholders to uplift cyber resilience, threat modelling, and recovery assurance
Design repeatable testing strategies for backup integrity, restore confidence, and disaster recovery scenarios
Mentor and uplift engineers through coaching, design reviews, and shared engineering patterns
Accelerate value delivery and innovation by improving engineering velocity through the use of AI
Contribute to strategic technical decisions, trade-offs, and long-term platform roadmaps
What We’re Looking For
Strong experience with Commvault backup and restore in enterprise environments
Proven delivery of air-gapped cyber backup or isolated recovery solutions
Deep AWS expertise, including RDS snapshot-based recovery
Expert-level capability across AWS cloud, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
Strong security mindset with experience embedding DevSecOps and compliance controls
Ability to influence technical direction beyond a single squad or team, aligned to Principal Platform Engineer expectations
Why Join DPSS?
Work on high-impact, board-visible cyber resilience and recovery platforms
Operate at principal level with real architectural influence
Be part of a deeply technical crew that values engineering excellence, automation, and security-first design
Flexible working, strong learning culture, and career pathways aligned to CBA’s engineering mastery framework
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.
If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
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Skills Required
- Strong experience with Commvault backup and restore in enterprise environments
- Proven delivery of air-gapped cyber backup or isolated recovery solutions
- Deep AWS expertise including S3, EC2, RDS and RDS snapshot-based recovery
- Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD (including CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeArtifact)
- Strong security mindset with experience embedding DevSecOps and compliance controls
- Experience with security and observability tools such as GuardDuty and Wiz
- Principal-level technical leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence platform direction across squads
Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Commonwealth Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Commonwealth Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
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What We Do
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances.
