Senior Platform Engineer

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: Sr Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore-Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: You will be part of a Platform Engineering team that enables Cloud adoption for the rest of the Bank. We put customers at the centre of everything we do. Together we use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. The size and nature of our systems and the pace at which our customers’ expectations are changing means we’re always seeking out the latest technology, experimenting and pushing the boundaries. Our work is key to future proofing one of Australia’s largest companies.

Impact &contribution: The cloud movement at CommBank is going strong and continues to grow. We’re looking for out-of-the-box thinkers who want to use technology to work on real-world problems that have the potential to change the lives of our 17 million+ customers. You’ll manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You’ll have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster, and more secure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement infrastructure using AWS technologies such as ECS, Fargate, VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, NLB, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for provisioning infrastructure, including infrastructure migration, storage, file systems, and log analysis.
• Develop, lead, and deploy CI/CD strategies using tools like GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Artifactory, and Jenkins.
• Manage logging and monitoring with tools such as CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Observe, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Lead troubleshooting of operational issues and suggest cost optimizations.
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripts.
• Mentor and coach team members, influencing practices and mindsets.

Essential Skills:

• 8 to 12 years of experience in provisioning AWS services using IaC, preferably with Terraform scripts.
• Strong experience in managing Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills in AWS Services.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, integrated automated testing, and governance, preferably using GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, and PowerShell.
• Experience in installing and configuring API gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee).
• Familiarity with the full software development lifecycle and Agile practices, focusing on source control, CI/CD, automated testing, logging, and monitoring.
• Experience in developing APIs and UI applications using modern web frameworks is a plus.
• Good knowledge of API management and tools.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and identity providers.
• AWS DevOps certification is a plus.

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.