Staff Platform Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer

You are Driven to stay ahead of cloud and platform engineering practices and motivated by building secure, scalable platforms that help engineering teams move faster.We are A growing engineering team within the bank delivering AI-enabled risk platforms and modern AWS-first infrastructure to support risk management at scale.Together we can Shape resilient, automated platforms that help simplify risk processes, improve delivery, and support better outcomes across the bank. Do work that matters Join the Operational Risk & Compliance Crew to engineer our core AI-enabled risk platforms. You will work within a squad delivering agentic AI capabilities into risk management processes that operate across the bank. Here, you’ll create, manage and optimise the platforms used to power our entire business. You’ll have the opportunity to take responsibility for continuous improvement, ensuring our systems are simpler, faster and more secure. See yourself in our team Risk Management is modernising how the bank identifies, assesses, and manages risk by building an enterprise-grade Risk AI Platform powered by an AWS-first approach, ArgoCD-managed deployments, and strong API standards. The platform underpins a growing portfolio of AI-enabled products that automate risk processes, embed agentic intelligence, and deliver scalable, human-in-the-loop workflows across Operational Risk & Compliance. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, Data Scientists, Principal Engineers, Risk Technology and adjacent crews to deliver platform capabilities, improve engineering practices, and meet tech control and privacy obligations. What You’ll Be Doing Build and evolve reusable cloud infrastructure, platform tooling and automation that support secure, scalable application delivery. Enable engineering teams through CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and modern platform practices across AWS environments. Deploy and operate containerised workloads using Kubernetes, EKS and related platform tooling. Improve observability, monitoring, resilience and operational support across critical services. Partner with internal and third-party engineers to improve delivery quality, speed and safety. Contribute to governance, service management, incident response and continuous improvement across the platform. We’re interested in hearing from people who: We know great candidates may not meet every requirement listed below. If you’re excited about this opportunity and believe your experience could add value, we’d love to hear from you. Must have Strong experience with AWS-based platform engineering or cloud infrastructure. AWS is preferred for this role. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, particularly EKS, and containerised deployments. Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation. Terraform experience is also relevant. Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or ArgoCD. A strong automation mindset and the ability to improve platform reliability, consistency and engineering efficiency. Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Observe or AppDynamics. Nice to have Experience with cloud-native APIs and deploying modern application services. Experience with Python, Golang or C#. Exposure to AWS AI services such as Bedrock. 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. 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 of Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work in the role you’re interested in. If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today! 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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