Platform Engineer

• Access to world leading technology teams, tools and platforms
• Competitive rem, annual bonus and enviable staff benefits
• Limitless learning and development opportunities

The technology function at Comm Bank have been responsible for some of the world leading applications in Banking Technology. They leverage agile execution disciplines and governance, to provide the safe, sound, and secure delivery and operation of infrastructure and Paa S services hosted within on-premises data centres. Through outstanding innovations and cutting-edge tech solutions, they contribute to our customer outcomes the increased efficiency, productivity, security and customer usability, ensuring the delivery of word-class customer outcomes

See yourself in our team

Our Virtual Hosting Crew excels in building and maintaining resilient and scalable infrastructures for seamless application hosting. Focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, the team ensures reliable, secure environments that support development speed, whilst ensuring service stability.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll play a critical role in enhancing and managing our hosting infrastructures. Bringing your expertise in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and distributed storage systems, you'll be responsible for maintaining and automating platforms, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform stability and high availability. This role supports a high-availability setup, balancing innovation and operational stability to provide scalable, reliable resources.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining scripts and automation workflows using infrastructure as code (Ia C) tools.
• Leveraging VMware and Open Stack to create, manage, and scale virtual machines and resources in a multi-tenant setup.
• Using tools like Prometheus and Grafana for proactive monitoring, handling on-call rotations, and ensuring rapid incident response and resolution.
• Managing distributed storage systems with tools such as CEPH and Min IO, ensuring data availability, resilience, and performance.
• Configuring and maintaining network connectivity and load balancing with Calico, Power DNS, and AVI Load Balancing, optimising network efficiency and security.
• Partnering with development teams to enhance deployment pipelines, optimise performance, and ensure the infrastructure meets the needs of application services.
• Utilising monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana for proactive system health checks and to manage on-call incident responses.
• Set up, manage, and scale resources using VMware, CEPH, and Open Stack, with a focus on efficiency and fault tolerance.

Key Skills and Experience

• Tenured Platform Engineer with Dev Ops and SRE practices in complex enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native technologies, networks, virtualisation, and containerisation (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Distributed Storage expertise using systems such as Systems eg. CEPH, Min IO.
• Familiarity with container networking (Calico) and infrastructure as code (Ia C) tools.
• Experience with AVI Load Balancer for software-defined load balancing.
• Strong background in deploying and managing monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Splunk) to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Proficiency in scripting and development languages (Python, Go, Bash, or Power Shell).
• Strong knowledge of VMware, Open Stack, and infrastructure as code tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native storage solutions, and network configuration.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Github actions, Cloud Formation.

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.

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 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.

We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696.

Advertising End Date: 23/11/2024

Job ID REQ218759