Staff 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: Staff Platform Engineer
Location: Bangalore

Business & Team: Enterprise Services (ES) is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service.

CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.

The Identity & Access Technology (IAT) team protects the Bank and our customers from cyber compromise, through proactive management of cyber security, privacy, and operational risk. Our team includes: 

- Cyber Strategy & Performance 

- Cyber Security Centre 

- Cyber Protection & Design 

- Cyber Delivery 

- Identity & Access Assurance 

The AAC RUN team is part of the Identity and Access Technology team and is responsible maintain Group wide Single Sign on and Authentication Services for Web Application for both on premise and cloud hosted applications in the Bank. We enable the Bank and its group entities to manage their IAM risk, provide productivity benefits and enable innovation to the Group and its customers. 

Impact & Contribution:The Staff Engineer role is to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of advanced enterprise grade IAM solution. They analyse business and IT needs and requirements to identify opportunities for improvement in business operations, processes, and control management. This role liaises with business and technical stakeholders to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organisation and to recommend solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

You will be expected to perform the following tasks in a manner consistent with CBA’s Values and People Capabilities.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead architecture and design of systems for PING Identity suite of products in AWS.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TeamCity, and Octopus Deploy.
• Build and support infrastructure automation using IAC, enterprise Vault integration.
• Integrate applications across cloud platforms, especially AWS, ensuring secure and seamless identity flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product and Security.
• Drive adoption of best practices in software engineering, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Drive adoption of AI in IAM space’
• Prepare and update documentation including system manuals, deployment and configuration instructions, test scripts and user guides.
• Ensure smooth integration with solutions provided by other teams
• Collaboration and communication with team members and stakeholders

Essential Skills:

• Must have at least 12-15 years development experience in an IAM domain.            
• Solid understanding of Ping Identity, Ping Directory, PING Suite of products for enterprise IAM.
• Proficiency in AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Experience with GitHub Actions for workflow automation.
• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python.
• Strong hands-on experience with TeamCity build configuration and Octopus Deploy
• Good to have AI exposure.
• Relevant IT or business tertiary qualifications is desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology