Organization: - At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: - Principal Platform Engineer
Location: - Bangalore
Business & Team: -
The role of Principal Platform Engineers is to Design, Build, Run & Evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments.
The Cybersecurity Engineering group safeguards the organization by delivering secure, scalable, and high-performing systems that protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Our mission is to support cybersecurity objectives through innovative engineering solutions and secure operational practices.
This exciting opportunity is for someone that can bring strong full cycle platform engineering expertise with a focus on learning and developing new skills across cyber security and security engineering.
Impact & contribution: -.
As a Principal Platform Engineer your key role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and security of our identity and automation platforms. You will contribute to the delivery of complex automation and security initiatives across the organisation’s systems and infrastructure, supporting our mission to protect platforms, data, and digital assets across both cloud and on-premises environments.
Working in a DevSecOps environment, your focus will be on automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and embedded security practices. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate automation and optimisation into every stage of the engineering lifecycle, driving innovation, operational efficiency, and platform resilience.
Roles & Responsibilities:-
- Are familiar with the full cycle model, where engineers are involved in design, build, challenge and run.
- Have a passion for designing, developing, deploying and running high-quality software and platforms.
- Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
- Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable.
- Automate observability logs and metrices, including dashboard, monitoring and alerting.
- Are familiar with incident management, post incident reviews, problem management.
Essential 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 (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;
- Experience in full cycle platform engineering including design, build, challenge and run.
- 15+ years of relevant IT experience
- Hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD and automation tools e.g Github, GitHub Actions, TeamCity.
- Previous experience in Scripting/programming languages e.g PowerShell, Bash and Python.
- Windows/Linux Server experience.
- Develop, deploy and manage platform services via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK and CloudFormation, Ansible, Lambda.
- Experience with containerisation, virtualisation, and orchestration technologies - Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS etc.
- Observability - Grafana, Prometheus.
Education Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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.
We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.
