- You Are… A skilled Developer with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructures
- We Are… Developing world class tools that deliver world-class customer outcomes
- Together We Can… Revolutionise the future of banking and finance technology
See Yourself in the Team
CommBank’s Technology team is globally recognised for delivering award-winning tech solutions and engineering tomorrow’s bank today. The Database and DevSecOps enablement crew, a strategic enabler in our commitment to continuous innovation, delivers cutting-edge tools and technologies crucial for ensuring the usability, security, and compliance of our database infrastructures. Dedicated to leveraging the latest technologies, they provide secure, scalable, and efficient database solutions, adding value to our customers’ experiences and outcomes. Database technologies offered include Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL across both private and public cloud (AWS).
Your Impact and Contribution
As a Snr Staff 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 Database and DevSecOps enablement 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions, automating operational tasks to increase platform availability, stability and operational efficiency.
- Influence and advocate for DevSecOps practices, integrating security into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain monitoring and alerting tools to proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability through the implementation of SRE practices.
- Maintain comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures, ensuring consistency and facilitating knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the CI/CD pipelines, platform, and applications.
- Stay current with industry trends, leveraging latest technologies to continuously improve our platform architecture and operations.
- Actively contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and development.
Key Skills and Experience
- Demonstrably skilled in programming and delivering quality, highly scalable infrastructure and database environments.
- Tenured experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role, with a strong focus on managing public or private cloud environments (e.g., AWS, VMware, Converged Infrastructure / Database platforms).
- In-depth knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and security automation.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Github actions, Cloud Formation.
- Strong background in deploying and managing monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Splunk) to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native technologies, networks, virtualization, and containerisation (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
- Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g Python, Bash Go, SQL, PL/SQL)
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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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.
