Snr Platform Engineer (AS400, L2/L3 support)
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, which 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:
The CBA technology unit delivers the best digital banking services to Commonwealth Bank customers and to do so is responsible for digital delivery, group data and analytics, technology, and technology infrastructure, cyber, fraud, physical security and business resilience for all divisions across CBA. It is also dedicated to delivering the best workplace technology experience for our over 53,000 people across CBA and focused on providing the latest tools, technology, and resources to enhance the way we work together and empower our people to achieve more for our customers.
The Senior Platform Engineer role will see you join our Asset Finance and Working Capital technology crew, part of CBA’s wider Business Banking technology function. Reporting directly to Operations Delivery Manager Business Banking, your key focus will be offering software and platform support across Alfa, the Group’s Asset Finance platform solutions.
We’re interested in hearing from people who:
Are outcomes driven and focused.
Have an engineering mindset and ‘wants’ to make things better.
Can act as an escalation point and can effectively manage relationships with key stakeholders at various management levels.
Are able to keep a cool head in highly stressful and critical situations.
Can effectively manage incidents, changes and problems (end to end) including managing BAU ticketing issues.
Have an appetite and passion for continuous improvement and automation across our process.
Possess strong communication skills to provide technical insights to a variety of stakeholders.
Tech skills:
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to possess knowledge of all, but experience or exposure with some, or their equivalents, will set you up for success in this team.
Previous experience as a platform engineer managing Level 2/3 support solutions across a highly available platform and business product.
AS400 (including batch processing / job scheduling / reporting), essential.
Experience working across DB2 for IBM and SQL service essential.
Foundational understanding working across LANSA highly regarded but not essential
Basic experience with Java and Apache Tomcat (Java Web Application).
Window Server management experience.
Observability, Logging and Monitoring tools, essential
SSL certificate management experience
Vulnerability and Patching management experience
Capacity Planning/Management experience
Disaster Recovery/High Availability management experience
API experience – highly regarded.
Exposure to and basic understanding of Akamai/SSO/Load Balancers (F5)/Firewalls
ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence proficiency
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.
Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins TeamCity CI/CD pipeline, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild to automate deployments.
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 with flexible work locations. 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. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in.
If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
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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Commonwealth Bank Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
