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Commonwealth Bank

Chief Site Reliability Engineer

Sydney

FULL TIME

November 4, 2024

  • You are a Chief SRE who’s passionate about improving the reliability and operability of mission-critical services
  • We are solving the biggest puzzles in the Australian financial services industry
  • Together we’ll build tomorrow's bank, using world-leading engineering, technology & innovation

Do work that matters
We’re accelerating our digital strategy with an ambition to provide customers with one of the best digital experiences of any company globally. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. As part of the team, You’ll ensure that our systems maintain the highest standards of reliability for our customers, which enables seamless execution of our award-winning banking apps.

See yourself in our team
Be part of a team excelling in Dev Ops automation, where we’re continuously modernising both our infrastructure and software stacks using cutting-edge tools and technologies.
You’ll thrive in a continuous iterative learning environment that’s constantly uplifting our customer’s experiences.
We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.
As a Chief Engineer in our SRE team, you’ll be a technical leader driving through leadership, designing and implementing largve scale solutions, as well as influencing and engaging the Organisation’s senior stakeholders on modern best practices for improving reliability through the Dev Ops lifecycle.
  • As a matured Big Thinker, you’ll work closely with senior leaders on the strategic development of the SRE practice.
  • Creating, developing, installing and implementing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems
  • Testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in an applications programming language within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications including technical security controls perform to specification
  • Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements
  • Partner with product and engineering stakeholders at all the different levels to influence and educate our awesome builder and operational teams on SRE philosophy, principles, practices, and benefits from Engineer to EGM Levels
  • Be an ambassador for modern engineering and reliability practices, sharing information and supporting others in their learning, and building strong and energetic team cultures.
  • Take great delight in designing, building, and delivering infrastructure, code, or services to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our internal or customer-facing services
  • You’ll enjoy every opportunity to perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues; partnering with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes.
  • Provide leadership to mentor other SREs, sharing your best practices and hard-earned learnings for tackling issues across the entire stack; hardware, software, application, and network

We are interested in hearing from people who have extensive experience in:
  • A Chief-Level Software Engineering role, partnering with senior stakeholders and leading a culture of data-driven reliability, monitoring and automation aligned to SRE principles
  • Designing, developing, testing and supporting applications and systems
  • Managing and scaling distributed systems in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment
  • Creating and developing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems
  • Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements
  • High-volume or critical production service environment.
  • Designing, developing and releasing code in one or more languages like Go, Python, .Net, or Java. · Previous SRE or Dev Ops experience

Tech skills
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;
  • 10+ years in software engineering, expert in at least one Programming language (e.g., Golang, Python)
  • Strong experience with modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as Team City, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy or similar; Strong public cloud experience in AWS , GCP or Azure
  • Experience leading teams of engineers driving outcomes using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch, Splunk, App Dynamics,
  • Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Linux internals, networking, containers, and troubleshooting
  • Experience in applying SRE Practices in large organisations and excellent Communication and Problem-Solving skills

Working with us:
Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with Comm Bank 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 Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.
If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today!

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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