Platform Engineer – Payments Software Engineering

You are a detail-focused engineer who creat es elegant payments engineering solutions

We are a team of big thinkers, defining the future of digital banking

Together we can deliver large-scale applications that impact millions of users

Who we are

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 .

Do work that matters

Technology group in CBA is responsible for the world leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of CommBank, 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.

See yourself in our team

The Payments Software Engineering team resides in the Payments Service Utility and its purpose is to restore the trust of our customers by transforming the Payments services experiences provided by the Bank to ++.+++% availability, greater agility and reliability.

Our team is composed of engineers and technology leaders, who bring in the right mix of skills to enable this transformation. We also work very closely with our business and operations colleagues to support these services which are critical to the Australian and Global economy.

We are now looking to hire two Platform Engineers to develop and deliver the vision for our Public Cloud Modernisation transformation within the Payments domain. This high availability, modernised platform powers many critical elements of the customer experience for our products.

Role and Responsibilities

R eporting directly to the Engineering Chapter Lead and indirectly to the Delivery M anager and Product O wner , your typical day will be to:

Design, build and run highly available and fully monitored systems

Build systems that are designed to break gracefully without customer impact

Resourcefully find solutions to problems that have not occurred yet, lead technical calls

Read packet captures and install software and tools

A fast learner and value sharing of knowledge

Mentor other team members

Knowledge and Skills

Bachelor’s degree/ master’s degree in E ngineering in Computer Science/Information Technology or any similar stream

Relevant experience gained in a similar role is required

Demonstrated experience in banking or related financial services

Unix/Linux (Red hat Systems administrator level)

DevTools (Ansible, Jenkins/Team city, Artifactory, Github )

Monitoring tools ( SPLUNK , Grafana)

Applications (Java based and generic applications experience)

Networking (Solid understand of TCPIP, load balancing, TLS/SSL, Security/Firewalls/Proxies)

Infrastructure (Physical servers and Cloud compute) Integration troubleshooting (you can troubleshoot up and down streams as well as instream systems)

If the above 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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