Senior Platform Engineer - AWS / Python

• You are highly experienced in building customer focussed solutions.

• We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create new solution.

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation.

Do work that matters:

We're building tomorrow’s bank today. This means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

The role of Platform Engineers is to design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities to deliver business value, and write code to drive automation in running our infrastructure and environments.

See yourself in our team.

CommBank Data is the emerging Cloud data platform solution consisting of AWS native services and capabilities that ingests data from multiple source systems and executes business use cases for AI, advanced analytics (machine learning) at scale, across the comprehensive dataset and facilitates data discovery by advanced analytics users.

This role will see you become part of the Data Platform Greenfields crew, a part of the wider Data Engineering and Data Platform Chapter. The crew is accountable and responsible for the platform’s availability, performance, security and lifecycle management.

Collaboratively we work to design, build and run ‘platforms’ to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Expertise in cloud infrastructure design and operations.

• Develop platform architecture that aligns with Business needs and support system resources in AWS environment across the Group, focusing on high quality, security, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Comprehensive understanding of driving automation through understanding processes and implementing improvements.

• Evaluate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities and reduce operational complexity.

• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to develop and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs ) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

• Support customer requests related to platform technical implementation and capabilities.

• Respond to incidents/problems and perform root cause analysis.

• Proactively identify and develop solutions to mitigate platform risks against system failure, data loss, inappropriate disclosure or use of data, malicious attacks etc.

• Manage ongoing environment expansion and life cycle, e.g. system upgrades, security patching.

• Develop and maintain runbooks, document system configuration and standard operating procedures.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are experienced Platform Engineers who are familiar with the full cycle model and involved in design, build, challenge and run.

• Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying, and running high-quality software and platforms.

• Contribute to a culture where quality, inclusiveness and excellence are championed.

• Have a natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups including high level executives.

Tech Skill:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

• Have experience in core AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Lamda and with AWS Managed services -  Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB and Redshift .

• Proficient in Python scripting, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks, manage configurations and troubleshooting  essential.

• Deep understanding and hands on experience on AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution essential.

• Proficient Linux and Unix Configuration and troubleshooting

• Experience delivering scalable solutions on infrastructure as a code (IaC) using Terraform/AWS Cloud Formation.

• Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins TeamCity CI/CD pipeline, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild to automate deployments.

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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