Staff Platform Engineer
Summary
The Staff Platform Engineer will lead the design and operation of multi-cloud networking and automation infrastructure for a major bank. The role involves building IaC modules, mentoring engineers, and driving reliability and security across Azure and GCP environments.
You are passionate, driven, flexible and collaborative
We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking
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.
See yourself in our team:
Join us as a hands-on technical leader driving the evolution of our multi-cloud platform. You'll shape architecture, build cloud networking and automation solutions at scale, and mentor engineers while setting the technical direction for platform engineering initiatives.
What You'll Do
Design, build, and operate automated cloud networking infrastructure across Azure and GCP.
Lead platform and network automation initiatives using Terraform Enterprise and event-driven orchestration frameworks such as Temporal.
Drive reliability, security, governance, and cost optimization across the cloud estate.
Develop reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules and shared platform capabilities.
Partner with Security, SRE, and Product teams to deliver resilient, compliant services.
Establish engineering standards, review designs, mentor engineers, and lead incident response for critical platform issues.
We’re interested in hearing from people who have experience in
Expert level experience in platform, cloud, or software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership.
Deep expertise in Azure and GCP, including networking, security, identity, governance, and core cloud services.
Strong cloud networking fundamentals (routing, BGP, DNS, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, network security).
Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and platform automation.
Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration frameworks.
Proficiency in Go, Python, PowerShell, or a similar automation language.
Strong understanding of operational excellence, observability, incident management, and security best practices.
Relevant Azure certification.
Technical Skills
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 will set you up for success in this team:
AWS experience and multi-cloud architecture expertise.
Kubernetes, service mesh, and event-driven architecture experience.
Contributions to shared platform tooling or open-source projects.
Azure, GCP, AWS, or HashiCorp certifications.
Working with us
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by software engineering, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.
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.
Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.
If this sounds like 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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