Principal Platform Engineer - Agentic AI, AWS

• Use Agentic/GenAI to transform AWS platform engineering

• Hybrid/Flexible working (Sydney or Melbourne)

• Annual Bonus, benefits plus work-life balance

About CommBank 

CommBank is recognised as leading technology and engineering innovation across Australia, from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. The team behind one of Australia’s most innovative banking apps and Cardless Cash, Spend Tracker, Benefits Finder and StepPay digital products.

We’re on the hunt for the best visionary Principal Platform Engineers to lead the design and evolution of our next-generation AWS platform strategy.

What you’ll be doing

In this high-impact role you’ll drive innovation by designing and implementing systems that integrate cloud-native infrastructure, Agentic workflows, and GenAI solution to build truly intelligent and adaptive systems. 

• Design and deliver the technology roadmap for AI-enabled AWS platform engineering.

• Architect scalable, event-driven, and autonomous infrastructure using GenAl and Agentic design patterns.

• Collaborate with ML and product teams to productionise LLM-based agents into core platform service, and enhance and scale IaC frameworks supporting intelligent system behaviour.

• Uplift the observability, reliability, and cloud-native best practices across platforms

• Evaluate emerging technologies, providing strategic guidance on platform tooling

• Lead global best practice engineering standards, mentoring teams on building intelligent, resilient platform systems.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are experienced in designing and scaling large-scale infrastructure on AWS

• Bring deep expertise in IaC (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and modern DevSecOps practices

• Show hands-on experience working with AI/ML frameworks (i.e. TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-Learn)

• Demonstrate their knowledge of Agentic system design and autonomous workflows I production environments

• Can summarise AI/GenAI engineering to senior leadership, and explain the deep technical aspects to engineers

• Bring expertise in distributed and/or low latency platforms, Service oriented architectures and security, and enterprise level continuous platform integration

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. 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.