Principal Platform Engineer

• Work with cutting-edge technology with talented and passionate teams
• Strategic leadership opportunity in the delivery of large-scale initiatives
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment
• Hybrid WFH and CBD Office locations

Your Role

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will be a technical leader, crucial in shaping our platform architecture, delivering large-scale change initiatives, and optimising the operations of our products and services, while driving continuous improvement across our platforms. You will foster a culture of automation to streamline processes, increase efficiencies, and drive continuous improvement. Your impact will be key in transforming our infrastructure and operations.

In this role, you may expect to:

• Lead process optimisation and technology change initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance in developing and maintaining platform solutions using Python and Go, ensuring security and performance.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and best practice engineering.
• Optimise clustered infrastructure for scalability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git Hub Actions integrating security into the pipelines, and ensuring compliance and best practices.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters for high availability and scalability.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code (Ia C) development using tools like Terraform.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and logging solutions using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and promote continuous improvement.

About You

We are seeking an 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 galvanised platform optimisations 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 decisioning.
• 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.
• Expertise in developing software automation using Python and / or Go.
• Expertise with opensource development practices.
• Expertise with Ansible or Terraform for infrastructure as code, automation, and orchestration.
• Experience with Kubernetes and large cluster operations.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub actions, focusing on automating testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Proficiency with cloud native software components and architecture.
• Proficiency in data processing and analysis, especially for monitoring system performance and handling large datasets with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Proficient in networking and systems programming, including custom networking tools, load balancers, and API gateways.
• Extensive experience with Cloud native software for optimising clustered infrastructure.
• Competence in developing private cloud environments.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

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.

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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Advertising End Date: 27/09/2024

Job ID REQ216980