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 / Lead DevOps Engineer
Build AWS-first risk platforms at Commonwealth Bank, automating secure infrastructure and Kubernetes delivery. Improve CI/CD and observability across enterprise risk systems.
Description
- Create reusable cloud infrastructure, platform tools and automation for secure, scalable application delivery.
- Support engineering teams with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and AWS platform practices.
- Deploy and run containerised workloads on Kubernetes, EKS and related tools.
- Strengthen observability, monitoring, resilience and operational support for critical services.
- Work with internal and external engineers to improve delivery quality, speed and safety.
- Support platform governance, service management, incident response and ongoing improvement.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Data Scientists, Principal Engineers, Risk Technology and adjacent teams.
- Deliver platform capabilities while meeting technology control and privacy obligations.
Requirements
- Substantial experience in AWS platform engineering or cloud infrastructure; AWS experience is preferred.
- Practical experience deploying containerised applications with Kubernetes, especially EKS.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as CloudFormation; Terraform is also relevant.
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or ArgoCD.
- A strong automation mindset, with the ability to improve reliability, consistency and engineering efficiency.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Observe or AppDynamics.
- Cloud-native API experience and deploying modern application services are advantageous.
- Python, Go or C# programming experience is advantageous.
- Familiarity with AWS AI services such as Bedrock is advantageous.
Benefits
- Flexible work locations.
- Spend at least half of each month connecting with colleagues in the office.
- Flexible working arrangements, including adjustable start and finish times.
- Part-time work arrangements.
- Job-sharing options.
- Support for accessibility needs.