Principal Platform Engineer at Home-in

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

30 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

30 Jan, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Experience, Infrastructure as Code, Networking, Security, Identity, CI/CD, Automation, Incident Management, Service Continuity, Data Backup Management, Observability, Self-Service Tooling, DevSecOps

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Role: Principal Platform Engineer (No direct reports) Location: Sydney or Melbourne Permanent position Role Overview We’re looking for a Principal Platform Engineer who owns and leads IT Operations for the x15 Ventures platform, with clear accountability for IT Service Management, Incident Response, and Service Continuity. This role is about setting operational strategy, defining how services are run, and ensuring the platform remains resilient, predictable, and fit for purpose as the business scales. The x15ventures platform hosts over 150 IT services across financial, payments and identity focused products. You’ll own the operational model for a modern, cloud-native platform that underpins these services, including resilience across data, networking, microservices, serverless, and containerised web applications. This includes driving incident readiness, recovery practices, and continuity planning so failures are contained, services recover quickly, and technology risk is controlled. What You’ll Do Platform Engineering Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and internal platforms (e.g. AWS/Azure/GCP) Improve on developer and platform experience through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) with strong governance, change controls, and auditability aligned to CommBank Risk and Cyber frameworks Embed DevSecOps practices into the platform, ensuring security, compliance, and risk controls are built in by default rather than layered on later Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications meet required security, risk, and operational standards while still scaling efficiently on the platform IT Operations Own and improve IT operational systems (PagerDuty, Observability Stacks, Assurance tooling) Establish and lead framework for incident management and response. Lead the strategy to meet SLAs across service uptimes and limit incidents that result in customer impact. Be accountable for Service Management, including Data Backup Management and Service Continuity. What We’re Looking For Experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, or similar Comfortable working across both engineering and IT operations Strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure) Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred, Serverless Framework, CloudFormation, SST) Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity Experience with CI/CD and automation Pragmatic mindset — you value reliability and simplicity over complexity Why This Role Real ownership across platform and IT — not siloed Opportunity to shape how platforms and operations scale together Mix of strategic platform work and hands-on operational impact A role where “keeping things running well” is genuinely valued If this sounds like the next role for you, please apply via the link We look forward to hearing from you ! 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: 12/02/2026 x15 is a venture-scaler, powered by CommBank. We build, buy, and invest in startups that will benefit the bank’s 15 million customers and beyond. In navigating the space between corporate and startup worlds, our people open themselves up to new levels of career-defining opportunity. We're an employer of technologists, growth, and digital talent, as well as more traditional operations and lending people, and we harness this collision of careers, ideas and expertise to help build and scale the next generation of digital businesses. We are looking forward to hearing from you if you're interested in a career that enables you to access the space between corporate and start up, and excited by the challenge of driving and delivering new innovations that will help shape the bank of the future.

Responsibilities

The Principal Platform Engineer will own and lead IT Operations for the x15 Ventures platform, focusing on IT Service Management, Incident Response, and Service Continuity. This role involves setting operational strategy and ensuring the platform remains resilient and fit for purpose as the business scales.