Organization:
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.
Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park
Business & Team: CTO
Reporting Line: Chapter Lead
Impact & Contribution:
Design and Develop reliable, scalable automation and cloud platforms across hybrid environments, improving system stability and delivery speed. Through strong SRE, DevSecOps, and automation practices, you enhance platform resilience, operational efficiency, and secure delivery of business‑critical services.
Roles & Responsibility:
- Manage AWS platforms, including compute, networking, and hybrid cloud integrations.
- Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using scripting languages and tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and implement version control best practices using GitHub, GitLab, and modern DevOps toolchains.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Network, Security, and Application teams to establish and enforce DevSecOps, governance, and automation standards.
- Automate Cloud and DevSecOps platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across enterprise environments.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices to enhance system availability, improve incident response, and drive operational excellence across cloud infrastructures.
Essential Skills:
- 12 + years Exp in Automation, Cloud & DevSecOps
- Deep expertise in AWS services, especially IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, KMS, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.
- Strong architecture and design skills for distributed, scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-native systems.
- Demonstrated success delivering secure, resilient, and automated cloud platforms in enterprise environments.
- Experience with database, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, including various Guard rails
- Experience with observability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc)
- Experience in DevOps/SRE/System Engineering in Cloud environment.
- Highly proficient working with various scripting/programming languages such as - Python, Typescript, PowerShell , Bash,
- Strong experience in working with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform
- CI/CD tools like CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Artifactory, Github actions
- Experienced with distributed version control systems- GitHub, GitLab
- Experience with configuration management Ansible automation platform (optional)
Education/Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in automation, cloud, and DevSecOps
- Deep expertise in AWS services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, KMS, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions
- Strong architecture and design skills for distributed, scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-native systems
- Experience delivering secure, resilient, and automated cloud platforms in enterprise environments
- Experience with database, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices and guardrails
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk
- Experience in DevOps, SRE, or systems engineering in cloud environments
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, PowerShell, and Bash
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Terraform
- Experience with CI/CD tools including CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Artifactory, or GitHub Actions
- Experience with distributed version control systems such as GitHub and GitLab
- Experience with Ansible automation platform
- Understanding of AWS cost optimization and operational efficiency
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.
