Staff Platform Engineer

About the job

Organization: Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the largest and number one bank in Australia, serving over 17 million customers. We maintain a high-trust brand reputation built on financial strength, innovation, and community impact. As of July 2025, CBA holds market cap of approximately USD 195.7 billion, ranking us among the top 100 most valuable companies globally. Our leadership in digital banking, customer safety, and responsible AI reflects our commitment to building a brighter future for all. Our values are reflected in our high-trust brand reputation. CBA is consistently ranked among Australia’s most valuable and trusted brands.

Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer Location:  Bangalore - Manyata Tech Park Business & Team: CTO

Reporting Line: Chapter Lead

Impact & Contribution: Design and Develop reliable, scalable automation and cloud platforms across hybrid environments, improving system stability and delivery speed. Through strong SRE, DevSecOps, and automation practices, you enhance platform resilience, operational efficiency, and secure delivery of business‑critical services.

Roles & Responsibility:

- Manage AWS platforms, including compute, networking, and hybrid cloud integrations.

- Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using scripting languages and tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and implement version control best practices using GitHub, GitLab, and modern DevOps toolchains.

- Collaborate with Cloud, Network, Security, and Application teams to establish and enforce DevSecOps, governance, and automation standards.

- Automate Cloud and DevSecOps platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across enterprise environments.

- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices to enhance system availability, improve incident response, and drive operational excellence across cloud infrastructures.

Essential Skills:

- 12 + years Exp in Automation, Cloud & DevSecOps

- Deep expertise in AWS services, especially IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, KMS, SQS, SNS, and Step Functions.

- Strong architecture and design skills for distributed, scalable, highly available, and secure cloud-native systems.

- Demonstrated success delivering secure, resilient, and automated cloud platforms in enterprise environments.

- Experience with database, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.

- Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices, including various Guard rails

- Experience with observability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc)

- Experience in DevOps/SRE/System Engineering in Cloud environment.

- Highly proficient working with various scripting/programming languages such as - Python, Typescript, PowerShell , Bash,

- Strong experience in working with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform

- CI/CD tools like CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Artifactory, Github actions

- Experienced with distributed version control systems- GitHub, GitLab

- Experience with configuration management Ansible automation platform (optional)

Education/Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology

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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