Staff Platform Engineer

Organization

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team: BB Tech

Impact & contribution

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments

Roles & Responsibilities

• Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices.
• Ensure that our platforms are loved by our software engineers and continually evolve our platforms to embrace new technology and improve the happiness and efficiency of our software engineers.
• Help software engineers to experiment with new potential platforms follow our standards, and when platforms become suitable for broader use, consider integrating it as a standard group-wide tool.
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable.
• Make all platforms entirely self-service, secure, and available within minutes without human approval.
• Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.
• Provide advice and guidance to platform teams on how to improve their scalability, test automation, and deployment automation.
• Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
• Write software to ensure that all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as python and go, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms.
• Actively participate in On-Call rosters from time to time to own resolution of any critical issues, ensuring the seamless operation of our systems, products and platforms.

Essential Skills

• Relevant experience of 11 to 16 years is required
• Have broad knowledge of AWS and specialising in running containerised microservices or serverless applications at scale.
• Proficient in Linux configuration and troubleshooting essential.
• Creating Automation playbooks using Bash, Ansible & Python.
• Experience working in DevSecOps environment designing and implementing CI pipelines to support automated build and testing of code with a focus on security.
• Deep understanding and hands on experience on CD pipelines using Github Actions, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Cloudformation, Terraform, SST and other related technologies.
• Expertise in Observability tools like AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Observe, Prometheus & AppDynamics.
• Vulnerability management – Has good understanding and knowledge of patching applications both on prem and on the cloud, certificates management, server administration.
• AWS Associate or above certification is desirable.
• Experience and knowledge on Generative AI, Machine Learning are advantageous.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream

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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