Senior Platform Engineer

• You are passionate about leveraging software engineering practices to address platform engineering challenges.
• We are an agile hub of fintech innovation and transformation.
• Together we can deliver tomorrow's bank, today.

CommBank is acknowledged as an industry leader in IT and operations with its cutting-edge platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation across everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our teams apply process excellence principles to ensure timely, error-free processing, which is a vital part of the value we offer our customers. Everyone places the customer at the heart of all we do, and our performance is measured against the Group’s external customer satisfaction metrics.

See Yourself in the Team

Join the team responsible for creating, managing, and enhancing the reliability and availability of IT Services that power our entire business.

The Retail Technology Platform Engineering crew are custodians of the operational effectiveness of numerous applications across all portfolios. They work tirelessly to ensure the reliability, stability, and availability of applications, setting guardrails, leading innovation and driving continuous improvement practices that ensure our tools and platforms are fit for purpose, function optimally and at scale.

Your Impact and Contribution

As a Senior Platform Engineer, with a well-developed knowledge of site reliability tools and best practice principles, you will be an integral part of CommBank's Engineering fraternity, a highly specialised team of site reliability engineers, ensuring the availability, stability, and optimal performance of the technology tools and platforms that enable our teams to deliver world-class outcomes for our customers and communities. To achieve this, your role may require your expertise to:

• Ensure the high availability and reliability across both Linux and Windows systems by proactively identifying and resolving potential issues, optimising system performance, and executing failover and disaster recovery procedures.
• Set up and manage robust monitoring solutions using tools like Grafana and Prometheus to track system health, develop alerts, and maintain dashboards to support real-time and historical analysis across diverse environments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, and Ruby to streamline repetitive tasks, improve system efficiency, and support incident response.
• Oversee infrastructure management tasks across Linux, Windows, and cloud environments, ensuring resources are efficiently allocated, regularly maintained, and well-integrated for optimal scalability.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation, establish best practices, and create guides for infrastructure management, troubleshooting, and automation.
• Troubleshoot network issues, configure TCP/IP settings, and ensure the security and compliance of both Linux and Windows systems, proactively addressing vulnerabilities and security risks.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient solutions, fostering a culture of reliability, security, and continuous learning.

What You’ll Bring

• Highly skilled in Linux and Windows Server environment troubleshooting, configuring, and optimising both systems.
• Expert knowledge of Linux and Windows Server security principles such as access control, vulnerability management, and system hardening.
• Proficiency in monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl, or Ruby and deploying code across environments using CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and network troubleshooting, network security protocols, and configurations.
• Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure), including provisioning, scaling, and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Ansible is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for system scalability and reliability.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you?

• Work with world-leading technology teams, tools, and platforms.
• Fun, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.
• Professional in an environment that fosters innovation, values continuous. learning and offers limitless development opportunities.
• Modern, high-tech corporate offices at our South Eveleigh Tech Park.
• Flexibility to work from home 50% monthly with our hybrid work model.

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