Principal Platform Engineer – NextGen AI Automation

• We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

• Work with cutting-edge technology with talented and passionate teams

• You will be part of an innovative environment with likeminded individuals

• Together we can place customers at the centre of what we do

Do work that matters:

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build a brighter future for Australia. Here, you’ll get to turn your passion into reality, working with new technology on state-of-the-art initiatives to enable a seamless and unrivalled customer experience.

See yourself in our team:

Our mission is to drive innovation and excellence in AI automation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to create solutions that enhance efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and experimentation, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of technological advancements. Incorporating Agentic AI and Generative AI into our mission, we aim to develop and deploy intelligent agents that can autonomously handle complex tasks, streamline processes, and provide valuable insights to our stakeholders. By integrating these advanced AI technologies, we strive to create a seamless and efficient workflow where AI agents work alongside our engineers and data scientists to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Our goal is to harness the power of AI and Gen AI to improve our existing processes, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation across all to help our customers.

We’re interested in hearing from people who are established, highly experienced, and technically astute Principal Platform Engineer with demonstrated success in leading the delivery and operations of large-scale, enterprise-grade, stable, scalable, and secure platforms. Beyond platform engineering, you will be a trusted leader and skilled software engineer, with notable contributions that have galvanized platform optimizations and influenced teams towards a culture of continuous improvement in efficiency through process automation.

Non-Technical Skills:

• Well-developed interpersonal skills, particularly the ability to influence positive outcomes across interdisciplinary areas and multiple levels of leadership.

• Clear, concise, and effective communication skills, with the ability to appropriately demonstrate technical initiatives and outcomes to non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrable business acumen and an understanding of potential customer and market impacts on decision-making.

• Effective leadership skills with the ability to appropriately guide a highly technical team of world-class engineers.

Technical Skills:

As a technical leader, the ideal candidate will bring well-established expertise in Platform Engineering tools and practices such as Python, Go, and Linux alongside:

• Advanced Linux engineering in large-scale environments.

• Experience in developing software automation using Python and/or Go, ensuring security and performance.

• Expertise with open-source development practices.

• Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using tools similar to AWS CDK or Azure Bicep.

• Experience with Serverless Frameworks.

• Experience with Kubernetes and large cluster operations.

• Experience with security and risk frameworks.

• Proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub actions integrating security into the pipelines, focusing on automating testing, deployment, and monitoring.

• Extensive experience with Cloud-native software for optimizing clustered infrastructure.

• Proficiency in data processing and analysis, especially for monitoring system performance and handling large datasets with Prometheus and Grafana.

• Proficient in networking, including custom networking tools, load balancers, and API gateways.

• Lead process optimization and technology change initiatives.

• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and best practice engineering.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and promote continuous improvement.

• Exposure to Large Language Models (LLM) and related technologies.

• Understanding of AI-powered engineering and data sampling mechanisms on AI Automation.

What's in it for you?

We’re a truly friendly and collaborative environment, where innovation is fostered, and individual contributions are celebrated. Aside from the wonderful impact this role brings to the lives of many, you can also look forward to:

• Competitive remuneration, bonus, employee discounts, and benefits.

• Hybrid work model.

• Access to world-class technologies, tools, and platforms.

• Limitless learning and development opportunities.

Working with us: 

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you.   

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.  

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.   

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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