Senior Software 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: - Senior Platform Engineer

Location: - Bangalore

Business & Team: -

Group Security Technology's purpose is safeguarding a brighter future for all through innovative technology. We do this by designing, building and running security products across cyber, identity and fraud technology in order to fulfil our objectives: Improve velocity of security outcomes with great customer experiences. Innovate, digitise and disrupt the way we deliver security. Lead the way in secure cloud and control adoption. Assure safe, sound, and secure technology.

Our Edge Security Technology squad builds, runs and enhances the edge security products and services that protect the CBA Group's internet facing websites, web applications, APIs and perimeter infrastructure from distributed denial of service, web application & API cyberattacks.

Impact & contribution: -.

The Senior Platform Engineer in Cyber will be reporting directly to an Engineering Chapter Lead working in our cyber engineering team to ensure the scalability, reliability and security of our platforms.

Your work will involve the delivery of complex security initiatives across the group's platforms and systems. Our mandate is to protect the business' platforms, systems, data, digital assets, and reputation across our cloud and datacentre infrastructure.
We also support the group in developing innovative and market-leading offerings, which are underpinned by security, privacy, and trust.

Roles & Responsibilities: -

• Bring excellent coding, debugging and troubleshooting skills in Python API development & Terraform.

• Exposure to automating Cloudflare, Akamai, or equivalent DDoS, WAF, and CDN technologies is preferred.

• Work well in teams and have strong collaboration skills in driving continuous improved initiatives

• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and best practices

• Take ownership of issues and follow through with end-to-end resolution of issues

• Have a true DevSecOps mindset and approach. You build it, you secure it, you test it, and you run it

• Have natural drive to educate, communicate and positively influence various stakeholder groups

• Knowledge on cloud, especially AWS, is an added advantage

• Have a great understanding of software delivery practices and lifecycles in Agile methodologies

Tech skills

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don't expect you to know them all but having significant experience and exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team

• 8-12 Years of IT Experience

• Demonstrated experience developing applications using modern programming languages and frameworks, including Python, and Terraform.

• Experience with Infrastructure as code and automating manual tasks

• AWS or Azure

• Mentoring and coaching capabilities, able to influence practices and mindsets in the crew 

• CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Artifactory

• Logging & monitoring: CloudWatch, Observe, Splunk, Grafana and Prometheus knowledge are desirable

• Automating repetitive tasks using Python, shell scripting, PowerShell etc.

• Any automation testing experience is highly desirable

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree/Master'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 Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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