Staff Platform Engineer (Networks)

See yourself in our Team  

Technology is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of Commonwealth Bank, from innovative product platforms for our customers to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive efficient and timely processing, an essential component of great customer service. 

Your Role  

As a part of our growth strategy, we are opening a number of roles in the Networks area, that would suit platform engineers with a growth mindset. The role of Staff Platform Engineer is to design, build, run and evolve tools, infrastructure, templates and capabilities that our other engineers use to deliver business value, and to write code that automates running our infrastructure and environments. 

To achieve this, your role will require you to: 

• Collaboratively work with engineering teams to design, build and run platforms that they can use to deliver customer value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. 

• Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure that it is reliable, secure and scalable.  troubleshooting and resolving network incidents 

• Discovery and validation of network connectivity requirements using enterprise tools such as  Infoblox, Splunk, AWS Cloudfront & Route53.    

• Work with project teams to understand and manage network connectivity between VMware, Windows, and Linux end-points.    

• Integrating to public cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure, and hybrid cloud network integration.    

• Ensure all services within the IT service portfolio are managed with consideration to network, capacity, platform, sociability/scalability factors and target architecture    

• Supporting and implementation of changes outside of regular business hours. 

• After hours on-call (rotation basis) and occasional travelling to data centre locations 

Your Skills and Experiences  

• General networking experience, solid experience with troubleshooting networking issues in production 

• Solid knowledge of application flow in terms of networking 

• Load balancing knowledge

• DNS/DHCP/IPAM experience - strongly preferred 

• AWS/Azure experience

• Network automation - any scripting language (Python or Bash), Terraform/Ansible experience 

• CICD experience

• Git - experience working with shared codebase 

• Linux - basic CLI skills, OS configuration 

• Experience with working with a large, complex enterprise

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 you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now!