Staff Platform Engineer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia7 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate automated cloud networking infrastructure across Azure and GCP.
- Lead platform and network automation initiatives using Terraform Enterprise and workflow orchestration frameworks such as Temporal.
- Drive reliability, security, governance, and cost optimization across the cloud estate.
- Develop reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules and shared platform capabilities.
- Partner with Security, SRE, and Product teams to deliver resilient and compliant services.
- Establish engineering standards, review designs, mentor engineers, and lead incident response for critical platform issues.
Requirements
- Expert-level experience in platform, cloud, or software engineering with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in Azure and GCP, including networking, security, identity, governance, and core cloud services.
- Strong cloud networking fundamentals, including routing, BGP, DNS, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, and network security.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and platform automation.
- Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration frameworks.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, PowerShell, or a similar automation language.
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, observability, incident management, and security best practices.
- Relevant Azure certification.
- AWS experience, multi-cloud architecture expertise, Kubernetes, service mesh, event-driven architecture, shared platform tooling, open-source contributions, or Azure, GCP, AWS, or HashiCorp certifications are advantageous.
Benefits
- At least half of each month is spent connecting in the office, with flexible work locations.
- Additional flexible working options include flexible start and finish times, part-time arrangements, and job sharing.
- Career development opportunities in a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace.
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About Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australia’s leading provider of financial services including retail, premium, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and sharebroking products and services. We are a business with more than 800,000 shareholders and over 52,000 employees. We offer a full range of financial services to help all Australians build and manage their finances. Connect with us, we'd like to hear from you: facebook.com/commonwealthbank twitter.com/commbank youtube.com/commbank youtube.com/commbankbusiness instagram.com/commbank Our Community Guidelines can be found at: https://www.commbank.com.au/support/social-networks.html For information on our Privacy Policy visit https://www.commbank.com.au/support/privacy