Data Protection & Storage Staff Platform Engineer
Your Impact and Contribution
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Data Protection Engineer to manage, optimize, and scale our enterprise cyber backup and recovery infrastructure. This role demands deep technical expertise in various data protection applications, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to collaborate across teams to ensure data protection and business continuity.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Administer and maintain a Commvault backup and recovery environment across hybrid infrastructure.
- Monitor system health, job performance, and storage utilization proactively.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of backup failures, restore issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Provide support and mentor junior engineers.
- Ensure adherence to data retention and protection policies.
- Maintain detailed documentation for backup configurations, SOPs, and DR plans.
- Design and test disaster recovery strategies.
- Risk Mindset and ability to pro-actively mitigate risks
- Automate routine backup tasks using scripting tools (Python, PowerShell, Ansible).
- Participate in capacity planning and architecture reviews.
We’re interested in hearing from people who have:
- Expert-level hands-on experience with Commvault, DataDomain, Networker, CommServe, Media Agents, and client configurations.
- Strong understanding of backup policies, deduplication, catalogue management, and storage targets (ECS, Pure, PMAX, Netapp).
- Experience with scripting and automation tools (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Terraform)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and reporting dashboards such as Grafana, Prometheus.
- Any 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).
- Expertise / experience / familiarity across a broad area of technologies (e.g. HSM, Active Directory, CyberArk, AI Ops etc) highly regarded.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive of experience in enterprise backup and recovery.
- Commvault Certified Professional or higher.
- Exposure to ITIL processes and change management.
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.
Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
Simply apply now - this could be your next career move!
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Skills Required
- Expert-level hands-on experience with Commvault, DataDomain, Networker, CommServe, Media Agents, and client configurations
- Strong understanding of backup policies, deduplication, catalogue management, and storage targets including ECS, Pure, PMAX, and NetApp
- Experience with scripting and automation tools including Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, and Terraform
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and reporting dashboards such as Grafana and Prometheus
- Experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role
- Experience managing public or private cloud environments, such as AWS, VMware, or converged infrastructure and database platforms
- Experience or familiarity with HSM, Active Directory, CyberArk, or AI Ops
- Extensive experience in enterprise backup and recovery
- Commvault Certified Professional or higher
- Exposure to ITIL processes and change management
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.
