Senior Systems Engineer - Virtual Hosting Crew

• You are a Senior Systems Engineer who has advanced technical skills and experience in your domain, DevOps, and associated tooling and ways of working.
• Join this world class team in this technology leadership role.
• Together we can build simpler and better solutions.

Do work that matters

CommBank is recognized as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps.

As a member of the Global Technology Services (GTS) division, you will contribute to all aspects of the technology products and services we deliver, from technical strategy and design to coding to deployment to operation. Our GTS products and services are leveraged across all Business Unit Platforms within the Bank to deliver industry-leading software including: CommBank App, Netbank, CommSee, CommSec, CommBiz and Commbank.com.au.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your 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 for you. 

See yourself in our team

As a Senior Systems Engineer within the Virtual Hosting Crew you will contribute to the safe, sound and secure delivery and operation of infrastructure and PaaS services hosted within our on premise data centres. You will support, engineer, and run world class products and services.

Overall, to be successful in this role you will:

• Collaborate with platform engineering squads to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability through the implementation of DevOps & SRE type practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain automation software to continuous integrate, deploy, monitor, and respond to incidents, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
• Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using differing tools and software, ensuring consistent and reproducible infrastructure deployments.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues, optimizing platform performance and reliability.
• Lead efforts to establish and improve monitoring and alerting systems, utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, to identify and address platform performance issues proactively.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, analyse system failures, and implement preventative measures to mitigate future incidents.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the CI/CD pipelines, platform, and applications.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents promptly, working towards resolution and contributing to the continuous improvement of system reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures.

We’re interested in hearing from people who have worked as an Engineer/Developer with experience in domain such as:

• Technology start-ups.
• Financial sector.
• Software and cloud service providers.
• Systems Integrators, and service providers.
• Telecommunications.
• Large complex environments and businesses, from a people processes and technology aspect.

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;

• Kubernetes clusters, and operations.
• Linux O/S.
• Ceph and MinIO cloud native storage and Linux engineering and tools.
• Automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Source control, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkis, and Argo CD.
• Go/Java languages, Bash/Python scripting.
• VMware solutions.
• AVI load balancing.
• Cloud Native network policy such as Calcio.
• Infrastructure as code pipelines and automation.
• PowerDNS.
• Observability with Grafana and Prometheus.
• General Networking protocols and architectures.

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 our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too. 

If this sounds like you, apply now! 

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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