Staff Platform Engineer

Organization

At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.

Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team: PSU IT

Impact & contribution

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll be working within a cross-functional squad responsible for the technical design, development, and rollout of key enhancements to our end-users. You’re constantly pushing the boundaries to help deliver outcomes that define future industry trends and your passion for outstanding user experience and ability to solve complex problems is key to developing high quality technical solutions

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Have a proven track record working in a public cloud environment; AWS would be preferred.
• Are passionate about Cloud/DevSecOps/Automation/Infrastructure as Code and possess a keen interest to solve complex problems in a systematic approach.
• Have strong communication skills and can interact with all levels of stakeholders confidently.
• As a matured Big Thinker, you’ll work closely with senior leaders on the strategic development practice
• Have expert experience in AWS Cloud, building SDKs for easy consumption, developer experience, lead the design, development, and implementation delivery using Agile practices with specific focus on deploying applications to multiple environments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills. You will be required to analyse technical issues involving multiple system components with complex relationships
• Excellent communication, influencing and collaboration skills to ensure you can effectively share ideas and solutions with your team
• Work closely with Product owners, other Senior engineers and various stakeholders to enable our Cloud and AI journey.

Essential Skills

• Relevant experience of 15 years is required
• Passion for designing, developing, deploying, and running high-quality software and platforms.
• Have experience in core AWS services like EC2, VPC, S3, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Lamda and with AWS Managed services - Amazon RDS, Dynamo DB and Redshift .
• Proficient in Linux and Bash scripting, or PowerShell to automate tasks, manage configurations and troubleshooting essential.
• Deep understanding and hands on experience on Cloud deployment using docker, github actions, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, Cloudformation, yaml and other related technologies.
• Knowledge on Monitoring and Observability tools like AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, AppDynamics to ensure proactive issue detection, monitoring, administration of these tools.
• Experience delivering scalable solutions on infrastructure as a code (IaC) using Terraform/AWS Cloud Formation.
• Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD tools like Github, GitHub, Jenkins TeamCity CI/CD pipeline, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild to automate deployments.
• Vulnerability management – Has good understanding and knowledge of patching applications both on prem and on the cloud, certificates management, server administration.
• Solid CI/CD tooling knowledge like Github, TeamCity, Urban Code Deploy, Tanium, Docker, Artifactory, Octopus, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.or equivalent
• Infrastructure as a Code experience like Cloud formation or Terra form
• AWS certification is an added advantage.
• Experience and knowledge on Generative AI, Machine Learning are advantageous

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream