Staff Platform Engineer - Identity Services
Join our dynamic team in a senior technical leadership role
Do the work that matters
CommBank invests in the latest AI technology stack across our ecosystems, giving our engineers modern tooling, platforms, and AI-enabled workflows to build with. You will work in an environment where AI-assisted engineering is part of how we design, deliver, and support software at scale.
See yourself in the team
We are seeking an experienced engineer to join Identity Services as a Staff Platform Engineer. You will set the technical direction for our platform ecosystem and guide a team delivering reliable, secure, and cost-effective end-user computing solutions.Deep CI/CD and pipeline expertise is central to the role, alongside strong design judgement, a focus on automation and operational excellence, and the ability to lift the engineers around you. A working understanding of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra will set you up for success.
This is a full-time position. Flexible working conditions and hybrid working environments are available.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership: Shape the roadmap and strategy for your team's products and services, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in the codebase.
Engineering Standards: Champion engineering principles, design patterns, and delivery quality across the domain.
Pipelines and Automation: Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation that make secure, repeatable delivery the default.
AI-Enabled Delivery: Apply AI tooling thoughtfully across coding, testing, and support, and help others adopt it well.
Delivery and Architecture: Build platform services and support tools that deliver measurable business value, and lead the transition to target architectures.
Innovation and Enablement: Identify emerging technologies aligned to the Group's strategic direction, and promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and reusability.
Technical Skills
Deep, hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Actions), with secure delivery practices built in.
Full lifecycle platform engineering — design, build, run — with a strong grasp of testing and operational readiness.
Strong scripting or development experience (PowerShell, .NET, Bash, Python).
Working knowledge of identity services, including Active Directory and Microsoft Entra.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible), AWS services, containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus).
Leadership Competencies
Influencing and Persuading: Build alignment and shift technical direction through evidence and relationships rather than formal authority.
Coaching and Development: Provide effective feedback and mentoring to raise engineering capability, including beyond your own team.
Collaboration: Work effectively across functions, teams, and geographies to deliver shared outcomes.
Flexibility and Adaptability: Manage competing priorities and treat complex production challenges as opportunities to learn.
Risk Management: Integrate risk management and secure engineering principles into decision-making, including the responsible use of AI tooling.
Working with Us
At CommBank, we are passionate about customer service, driven by data, and inspired by creativity. Our people bring diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives, creating a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace. We are driven by our values and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. Here, you will thrive, be supported when faced with challenges, and be empowered to tackle new opportunities. We are hiring engineers from across all of Australia, and you will be empowered to do your best work, with the flexibility to choose when and where that work happens.
If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
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Skills Required
- Deep hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling, including GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Full lifecycle platform engineering experience covering design, build, and run
- Strong scripting or development experience with PowerShell, .NET, Bash, or Python
- Working knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
- Experience with AWS services, containerization, and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana and Prometheus
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration
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.
Commonwealth Bank Insights
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.
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