Staff / Lead Network Automation Engineer

Staff / Lead Network Automation Engineer

• You are highly experienced in building customer focussed solutions

• We are a team of big thinkers, who love to push boundaries and create new solution

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters:

The purpose of this role is to provide engineering leadership, strategy, design, implementation and support in order to drive excellence, quality and performance for an IT service, across one or multiple portfolios. The role has:

• Active responsibility to work on the design, implementation & Network engineering for the Utilisation of standardised IT services to promote business value

• Accountability to support and maintain the utility of provided services and meet the ongoing technology requirements for business, projects and IT stakeholders.

• Provide support for escalation of operational issues whenever required.

• Flexibility in working hours to accommodate after hour changes.

See yourself in our team

The Network Engineering team is responsible for delivering network requirements and implementation to achieve business outcomes.

The GTS Networks team is responsible delivering, supporting and continuously improving the Bank’s Global Network and Security services.

You will be reporting directly to a Chapter Lead as part of the Global Technology Services business unit. Your wider team consists of multiple squads in the Engineering disciplines of Network Security, Partner Connectivity, Workload Connectivity, Software Defined Network, Cloud Networking, Network Automation and Workforce Connectivity.

We’re interested in hearing from people who

• Are familiar with the Full Cycle model, where engineers are involved in Design, Build, Challenge and Run

• Have a passion working with data centre networks.

• Have experience with technology in a large organization

Tech Skills:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;  

• Mandatory knowledge and demonstrated understanding in design of routing technologies such as Static routing, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, Anycast, BFD, ECMP, Traffic load balance, NAT etc

• Very good understanding and working experience in core switching technologies i.e. VLAN, STP, Access port, Trunk, MST, VPC, VDC, VRRP, HSRP, GLBP.

• Working experience in Datacentre technologies Spine and Leaf architecture, VXLAN, EVPN, Underlay, Overlay, MP-BGP, Border Leaf, Router server architecture

• Network orchestration tools experience DCNM, NDFC, Apstra.

• Good understanding and hands-on experience in Cisco Nexus switches and NX-OS architecture, Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR

• Specialized knowledge of development and design methodologies

• Good design or architecture experience

• Network scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Python, NSO, Yang, Terraform, JSON Script

• Experience in leading a small team of Engineers

• Discovery and validation of network connectivity requirements using enterprise tools such as Algosec, Splunk and AWS VPC flow logs, R53, Cloud redirect and Cloudfront, SolarWinds, Qualys, and Infoblox

• Author and maintain detailed network security design documents, ensuring accuracy and representation of design and implementation plans and configuration of network security changes into CBA’s network services and devices

• Mandatory knowledge and demonstrated experience of Cisco Switches (Nexus and IOS), Routers and Firewalls.

• Flexibility in working hours to accommodate after hour changes

• Desirable experience in F5 GTM, LTM, and Azure/AWS network security group enforcement policies and firewall management.

• Manage escalation of complex technical issues from suppliers, operations and application teams

• Supporting and implementation of changes outside of regular business hours

• Mentoring of Engineers across multiple technologies

• Flexibility in working hours to accommodate after hour changes

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.

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 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!

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