Commonwealth Bank
Commonwealth Bank
Commonwealth Bank is an Australian financial services company spanning retail, premium, business, and institutional banking. Its offering also includes funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment, and sharebroking services. With more than 52,000 employees and over 800,000 shareholders, Commonwealth Bank operates across a broad range of financial products and services designed to help customers manage and build their finances.

Staff Platform Engineer, AWS — Commonwealth Bank, Sydney Onsite

Lead the architecture, reliability, developer tooling and security of CommBank’s AWS-based BB Companion platform. Guide cross-squad delivery of customer-facing Business Banking capabilities, including responsible AI and agent safety controls.

Description

  • Own the BB Companion platform architecture, infrastructure and automation across multiple squads
  • Set technical direction, lead design reviews and integrate product, data and AI platform capabilities
  • Deliver secure AWS engineering through CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and EKS
  • Strengthen reliability, observability and resilience through SLOs, capacity planning, incident response and remediation
  • Advance developer experience with self-service platforms, golden paths and measurable adoption
  • Implement security, privacy, data governance, responsible AI and agent safety controls
  • Establish engineering standards and apply Staff-level judgement to governance, incidents and complex trade-offs
  • Mentor engineers and expand platform capability across squads
  • Serve as squad technical lead while partnering with adjacent squads to deliver agentic AI capabilities for customer-facing Business Banking experiences
  • Shape architecture and roadmaps, coordinate cross-team dependencies and embed secure-by-design, privacy, data governance, operational resilience and responsible AI practices

Requirements

  • Demonstrated Staff-level leadership in architecture, platform strategy, complex technical decisions and engineer mentoring
  • Strong AWS platform engineering experience with Kubernetes/EKS, containers, networking, scalability, resilience, security and cost management
  • Hands-on capability with Infrastructure as Code, scripting, CI/CD, GitOps and DevSecOps
  • Strong system design experience spanning APIs, integrations, automation, observability, SLOs and dependable operations
  • Experience integrating security, privacy, risk controls and vulnerability remediation into platform delivery
  • Clear communicator who can align product, engineering, data, AI platform, risk and business stakeholders
  • Experience building cloud-native APIs, customer-facing digital services or conversational experiences
  • Familiarity with AWS AI services, generative or agentic AI workloads, responsible AI and human oversight controls
  • Experience with internal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service tooling or FinOps practices
  • Relevant cloud certifications, a technical degree or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career development and progression
  • Accessibility assistance available through HR Direct
  • Employee application support through Sidekick for Commonwealth Bank Group employees

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