Organization:
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Job Title: Staff PlatformEngineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: Corporate Technology
Impact & contribution:
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will define and build the foundational AI platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and production-ready AI across the Lending domain. You will partner with domain architects, engineering teams, and product owners to embed AI into core services while ensuring enterprise-grade reliability, governance, and operational excellence.
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.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and migrate application workloads into AWS and EKS
- Utilize core AWS services such as Compute (EC2, Lambda), Storage (S3, EBS), Networking (VPC, Route53), and Database (RDS including Aurora, NoSQL including DynamoDB, Neptune).
- Implement management, security, and cost optimization strategies using IAM, CloudWatch, and Security Groups.
- Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure best practices in cloud architecture.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using TerraForm, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Observability, reliability engineering, and DevOps practices.
- Leverage specialized services such as Containers (ECS, Fargate, EKS) and Machine Learning and AI services (Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, Sagemaker, Amazon Q).
- Demonstrate strong programming skills in Python (preferred) or another modern programming language.
- Build and operate enterprise AI platform capabilities for the Credit Risk and Lending domains.
- Design domain-aligned AI evaluations, prompt management, and guardrails to enable responsible AI adoption.
- Embed AI into core lending services through reusable platform capabilities, APIs, and BIAN-aligned architecture.
- Ensure AI services meet production-grade standards for reliability, security, governance, and operational SLAs.
- Drive continuous improvements in AI quality, latency, accuracy, and platform performance while mentoring engineering teams and promoting engineering best practices.
Essential Skills:
- Minimum 12+ years of experience with expert level knowledge,
- Practical industry experience in AWS cloud solutions.
- Proficiency in core AWS services and concepts.
- Solid knowledge in specialized AWS services.
- Machine Learning and AI services – Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, Sagemaker, Amazon Q
- Scripting and programming using technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, Java, .NET.
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD services and tools.
- Must have at least one current Associate Level+ certification in AWS (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate/Developer Associate or above)
Educational Qualifications: Bachelor of Engineering or B.Tech
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Skills Required
- Minimum 12+ years of experience with expert-level knowledge
- Practical industry experience in AWS cloud solutions and proficiency in core AWS services
- Experience with AWS compute, storage, networking, and database services (EC2, Lambda, S3, EBS, VPC, Route53, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Neptune)
- Experience with AWS security and management tools (IAM, CloudWatch, Security Groups)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (ECS, Fargate, EKS / Kubernetes)
- Experience with AWS Machine Learning/AI services (Amazon Textract, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q)
- Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK
- Strong observability, reliability engineering, and DevOps practices experience
- Scripting and programming experience (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, Java, .NET)
- Demonstrated strong programming skills in Python (preferred)
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD services and tools
- Must hold at least one current AWS Associate-level (or higher) certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate)
- Experience designing and migrating application workloads into AWS and EKS
- Experience building and operating enterprise AI platform capabilities, including governance, guardrails, and production SLAs
- Ability to mentor and lead offshore engineering teams
- Bachelor of Engineering or B.Tech
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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