Only 24h Left: Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

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: Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore

Business & Team: GSM - CTO

Impact & contribution:Here, you'll thrive. You'll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We're hiring engineers from across Australia and have opened technology hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- As a matured Big Thinker, you'll work closely with senior leaders on the strategic development of the SRE practice.
- Creating, developing, installing and implementing tools required to support the operational management (including security) of software applications and systems
- Testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in an applications programming language within established testing protocols, guidelines and quality standards to ensure programs and applications including technical security controls perform to specification
- Identifying technology limitations and deficiencies in existing systems and associated processes, procedures and methods, and using software engineering to develop scalable and sustainable improvements
- Partner with product and engineering stakeholders at all the different levels to influence and educate our awesome builder and operational teams on SRE philosophy, principles, practices, and benefits from Engineer to EGM Levels
- Be an ambassador for modern engineering and reliability practices, sharing information and supporting others in their learning, and building strong and energetic team cultures.
- Take great delight in designing, building, and delivering infrastructure, code, or services to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of our internal or customer-facing services
- You'll enjoy every opportunity to perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues partnering with software and systems engineers across the organization to produce and roll out fixes.
- Provide leadership to mentor other SREs, sharing your best practices and hard-earned learnings for tackling issues across the entire stack hardware, software, application, and network

Essential Skills:

- 12+ years of overall experience, including 2+ years direct experience in Site reliability engineering (SRE).
- 5+ years in software engineering, expert in at least one Programming language (e.g., Golang, Python)
- Strong experience with modern software development practices using tools such as git for source control, and CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy or similar Strong public cloud experience in AWS , GCP or Azure
- Experience leading teams of engineers driving outcomes using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, AppDynamics,
- Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Linux internals, networking, containers, and troubleshooting
- Experience in applying SRE Practices in large organisations and excellent Communication and Problem-Solving skills

Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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Advertising End Date: 15/09/2025

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