Senior Platform Engineer

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 12/07/2025

Job Description

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: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore
Business & Team: CTO- SNS

Impact & contribution: The network team in CBA Technology is responsible for world-leading network technology and operations across CommBank supporting our workforce across Australia and international locations. Our team is collaborative, supportive, and keen to share knowledge. We emphasise open communication, quality work and a culture of excellence.


Roles & responsibilities:

• Collaboratively work with customer facing product engineers to design, build and run platforms that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety.
• Write software and tooling that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling.
• Create a standardised set of tooling for deploying and running applications and setting them up with best practices.
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure the that it is reliable, secure and scalable.
• Make all platforms entirely self-service, secure, and available within minutes without human approval.
• Ensure that our platforms are loved by our software engineers and continually evolve our platforms to embrace new technology and improve the happiness and efficiency of our software engineers.
• Write software to ensure that all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as python and go, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms.
• Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.

Essential skills:

  • 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering and 2+ years working in a DevOps environment.

  • Experience with technical hands-on experience in (Python or Bash similar).

  • Experience with frontend features using React or Angular

  • Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, etc.)

  • Have very good understanding of DevOps practices, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).

  • Have very good understanding of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform,) and network configuration management.

  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.

  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or 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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About Company

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is one of Australia's leading financial institutions, offering a range of banking, investment, insurance, and financial services. Founded in 1911, it operates in Australia and internationally, focusing on retail banking, business banking, wealth management, and financial markets. Renowned for its digital innovation, CBA is a major player in advancing technology-driven banking solutions.

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