Staff Platform Engineer

Organization: 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.

Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer
Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore
Business & Team: CTO

Impact &contribution: You are A Site Reliability expert, passionate about optimising workflows. We are Modernising ITSM, remaining at the forefront of operational excellence. Together we can Deliver exceptional end user experiences for our customers.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and robust platform solutions to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our systems, with a focus on meeting Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, ensuring seamless integration and deployment while maintaining high uptime and reliability.
• Ensuring the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by continuously monitoring and optimizing system performance and adhering to error budgets.
• Identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs to maintain system stability and reliability, with a focus on minimizing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and Mean Time to Detect (MTTD).
• Maintaining code quality, organization, and automation to streamline development processes and enhance productivity, ensuring that automated processes support high availability and reliability.
• Develop and maintain observability solutions to monitor system health and performance.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers in best practices and technical skills.
• Leverage Kubernetes for container orchestration and management in managed or self-hosted clusters.

Essential skills:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in Platform Engineering.
• Good exposure to Network Engineering and Software Development.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience with microservice architecture and API design.
• Strong understanding of AWS and data structures. Experience working in Private and Public Cloud-based applications is a must.
• Experience working in high-volume, high-frequency streaming pipelines like Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and Apache Flink.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Docker, and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with source control and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Qualys, Grafana, AppDynamics, Observe, and Splunk.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
• Strong skills in observability, including monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Education Qualification:  Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.

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Experience Level

Senior Level