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Staff Platform Engineer

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Area, Viveiro, Lugo, Galicia
Senior level
Area, Viveiro, Lugo, Galicia
Senior level
The Staff Platform Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and evolving a critical cloud-based application platform. This role involves implementing SRE best practices, automating platform operations, designing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the performance, security, and reliability of the platform.
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  • Access to world-leading technologies, tools and engineering teams.
  • Central, modern high-tech office environment with collaborative teams.
  • Limitless learning and development opportunities.
  • Competitive remuneration, incentive bonus and staff benefits package.

See Yourself in the Team

Business Banking Technology has a vision of becoming Australia’s leading digital business bank, empowering businesses and people to succeed with tomorrow’s technology. We work hand-in-hand with our business colleagues to solve problems with customer centricity and technical innovation, cultivating a world-class empowered team who build technology solutions for the future.

Your Impact and Contribution

If you’re passionate about platform engineering, automation, and reliability, we’d love to hear from you!

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Platform Engineer to take ownership of the maintenance, enhancement, and reliability of one of our most critical application platforms. This is an opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the performance, scalability, and security of a platform that is essential in delivering great outcomes for our customers and communities.

Your Role

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the cloud-based infrastructure supporting our mission-critical application. You will work closely with software engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement automation, improve observability, and optimise deployment pipelines. In summary, in this role, you may expect to:

  • Maintain, enhance, and optimise a mission-critical application platform hosted on AWS.
  • Implement and advocate for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Design and manage robust CI/CD pipelines to support seamless and efficient software deployments.
  • Automate platform operations using PowerShell, YAML, and other scripting languages.
  • Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response mechanisms.
  • Collaborate with software development and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth platform operations.
  • Identify and implement automation opportunities to eliminate manual and repetitive tasks.
  • Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud best practices.

Key Skills and Experience

  • Strong AWS expertise – experience with cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and cost optimisation.
  • Deep understanding of SRE principles (availability, reliability, observability, incident management).
  • Proven experience with automation and scripting using PowerShell and YAML.
  • Expertise in CI/CD methodologies and working with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills in cloud and distributed systems.
  • Experience working in an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environment is a plus (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive and collaborative mindset.

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.

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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Top Skills

AWS
Powershell
Yaml

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