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Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Impact and Contributions:
The role of Senior Platform Engineers is to Design, Build, Run & Evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments. Collaboratively work with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run ‘platforms’ that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. We are keen hear from platform engineers who are passionate about infrastructure as code and software.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
As a Senior Platform Engineer you are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Change and Run.
Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high quality software and platforms.
Contributes to a culture where quality, inclusiveness and excellence are championed.
Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.
Key Responsibilities
Collaboratively work with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run ‘platforms’ that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety.
Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices.
Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable.
Make all platforms entirely self-service, secure, and available within minutes without human approval.
Ensure that our platforms are loved by our software engineers, and continually evolve our platforms to embrace new technology and improve the happiness and efficiency of our software engineers.
Write software to ensure that all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as python and go, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms.
Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.
Required Skills:
Experience as Software Engineer/DevSecOps/DevOps/SRE/System Engineer in Cloud environment.
AI exposure and understanding on models and Secure AI approach
Expertise working with AWS Infrastructure essential.
Experience with container technology: Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
Strong experience with scripting/programming in programming languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML etc, as well as good Windows/Linux Server experience.
Experience working with Infrastructure as Code Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline highly regarded.
Experience working with CI/CD & automation tools like Github, Github Actions, Teamcity, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline.
Experience with Logging and Monitoring tools like Observe/Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana and Pagerduty
Be able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
6 to 10yrs rel exp.
Desirable:Advanced knowledge in Kubernetes networking, security and controller/operator.
Systematic problem-solving approach and proactively continue improving current processes and tools.
Experience in testing tools such as Blazemeter highly regarded.
Education Qualifications:
Bachelors of Engineering or BTech or equivalent graduation
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Skills Required
- Experience as a software engineer, DevSecOps engineer, DevOps engineer, SRE, or systems engineer in a cloud environment
- Exposure to AI models and understanding of secure AI approaches
- Expertise working with AWS infrastructure
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or Amazon EKS
- Strong scripting or programming experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML, or similar languages
- Experience with Windows and Linux servers
- Experience with infrastructure as code, including CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK
- Experience with AWS CodeBuild or AWS CodePipeline
- Experience with CI/CD and automation tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or Jenkins
- Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Observe, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or PagerDuty
- Clear and effective communication skills
- Six to ten years of relevant experience
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes networking, security, and controllers or operators
- Experience with testing tools such as Blazemeter
- Bachelor of Engineering, BTech, or equivalent degree
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.
