Organization:
At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Financial Crime Technology (FCT) are accountable for build & maintenance of Technology Services to fulfil the Group's Financial Crime Regulatory & Compliance Obligations. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations.
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role and strengthen the stability, resiliency, and operational maturity of our FCP Service/Oracle FCMRE.
Impact & contribution:
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic regulatory reporting initiatives, supporting production operations, and driving the integration of our future-state data architecture. This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to lead and mentor offshore engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Improve reliability, availability, and recoverability of Monitoring & Screening platforms
Define and manage SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and observability to proactively manage service health.
Provide L1/L2 production support for FCP Platform, AutoSys batch scheduling, API services, and cloud-hosted components (AWS).
Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and automation to reduce operational cost.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews across screening, batch, and cloud ecosystems.
Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines and support cloud-native deployments.
Develop and maintain automation scripts (Python/Shell) to support batch processing and operational tasks.
Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to design reliable, scalable screening and cloud-integrated solutions.
Participate in on-call rotations as per operational requirements
Skills & Experience Essential
Min 10+ years of relevant hands-on work experience in software development
Experience on operating production-grade systems with strong reliability and availability requirements.
Strong knowledge of SRE and Observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs).
Hands-on experience with Customer Screening / Financial Crime platform and Oracle FCMRE.
Strong Experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC) and cloud-based architectures.
Contribute to DevSecOps changes and help the engineering chapter towards higher DevSecOps maturity
Experience with batch processing frameworks and schedulers (e.g. AutoSys).
Working knowledge of API development and integration (RESTful services).
Very Strong scripting skills in Python and Shell for automation and operational support.
Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Github actions, Teamcity, Octopus).
Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, PagerDuty. Preferably working experience in Observe setting up datasets, monitoring, and alerts
Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
Expert troubleshooting of implementation, environment and deployment issues.
Experience in Java, NodeJS, C#.
Qualification: Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech
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Skills Required
- 10+ years relevant hands-on software development experience
- Operate production-grade systems with strong reliability and availability requirements
- Strong knowledge of SRE and Observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs)
- Hands-on experience with Customer Screening / Financial Crime platforms and Oracle FCMRE
- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC)
- Contribute to DevSecOps improvements and increase DevSecOps maturity
- Experience with batch processing frameworks and schedulers (e.g., AutoSys)
- Working knowledge of API development and integration (RESTful services)
- Very strong scripting skills in Python and Shell for automation and operational support
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus)
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, PagerDuty
- Preferably working experience in Observe for dataset/monitoring setup
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments
- Expert troubleshooting of implementation, environment and deployment issues
- Experience in Java, NodeJS, C#
- Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech
- Participate in on-call rotations as per operational requirements
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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