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See yourself in our team: You’ll join the Secure Desktop and Identity Domain within our End User Experience Division — a team focused on enabling safe, seamless access for every employee. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll set the technical direction for our platform ecosystem and guide a squad that delivers reliable, secure, ai-powered and cost-effective end-user computing solutions. Do work that matters You will design and implement software solutions that ensures the end user computing environment is robust, cost effective to support, and meets business requirements. You’ll balance hands-on engineering with high-level design and mentoring, driving automation, AI-enabled tooling and solutions, and DevSecOps practices across our engineering community. To be successful in this role, some of the broad roles and responsibilities may include: Strategic & Technical Leadership • Shape the roadmap and strategy for your squad’s products and services. • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across the team. • Champion engineering principles, patterns, and standards across the domain. Delivery & Implementation • Design and implement platform services and support tools that deliver measurable business value. • Lead the transition from current to target architectures. • Provide expert-level support aligned with SLAs and incident management processes. Innovation & Enablement • Identify emerging technologies that align with the Group’s strategic direction. • Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and reusability across teams. • Enhance our Standard Operating Environment (SOE) and related tooling to drive consistency and resilience. We’re interested in hearing from people who possess the following: • Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD and automation tools (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity). • Strong scripting or programming experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python). • Experience with Windows environments and macOS, including management solutions like Nexthink and Jamf • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible. • Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, EKS. • Familiarity with containerisation, virtualisation, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS). • Observability and monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus. • Strong understanding of Microservices, GraphQL (Apollo), RESTful APIs, and domain-driven design. • Knowledge of secure development practices — OWASP Top 10, ISO 27001. • Backend: .NET, Java, or TypeScript — and a willingness to learn new technologies. Working with us 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. 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 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. We're aware of some accessibility issues on this site, particularly for screen reader users. We want to make finding your dream job as easy as possible, so if you require additional support please contact HR Direct on 1800 989 696. Advertising End Date: 09/12/2025 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. 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 really love working here, and we think you will too.