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: - Staff Platform Engineer
Location: - Bangalore
Business & Team: -
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join our team at CBA. This role is pivotal in designing, building, and supporting robust platform solutions across cloud and hybrid environments. You will lead deployment activities, drive automation, and ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security.
Impact & contribution: -.
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be a senior contributor within the AWS Cloud Foundations crew responsible for the safe, sound and secure delivery and operation of AWS infrastructure across the group. The Staff Engineer is required to influence, engineer, design, build and run world class products and services.
Roles & Responsibilities: -
Designing and developing new tools and AWS cloud services to be integrated across the bank.
Design, Develop, Manage and Support System Resources in AWS environment across the bank, ensuring networking and security standards and best practices are maintained.
Expertise in cloud infrastructure design and operations.
Driving automation through understanding processes and implementing improvements.
Presenting your work to peers in your immediate team and to engineers, scientists, and managers across the broader Systems Engineering community
Evaluate new technologies on an ongoing basis and participate in design activities across the Crew.
Work closely with Chapter Lead, Product Owner and Peers and consistently add value to the Crew.
Provide support on-call for AWS production environments across the Bank.
Building monitoring, fine-tuning alerts and health-check dashboards.
Lead and support deployment activities across platforms including AWS, DHP, API gateways, and Kafka streamers.
Architect, build, and maintain scalable and secure AWS environments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business goals.
Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub Actions.
Automate operational tasks using Bash, Python, or PowerShell scripting.
Ensure platform security and compliance using IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Config, and Inspector.
Manage networking components including VPC, subnets, NAT gateways, load balancers, VPNs, and Direct Connect.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.
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;
Solid Experience working in a build and execution capacity within AWS Cloud Services.
12 + years of relevant IT experience
Deep expertise in AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53.
Strong proficiency in Linux (preferred) and Windows operating systems.
Hands-on experience with IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
Proven track record with CI/CD tools: CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions.
Solid scripting skills in Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
Strong understanding of networking and security in cloud environments.
Experience supporting Kafka streamers and API deployments.
AWS Associate or above certification is desirable.
Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
Strong communication and documentation skills.
Ability to thrive in cross-functional teams and dynamic environments.
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.
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