Staff Systems Engineer

at  COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA

Staff Systems Engineer

• You are a highly skilled and experienced Staff Systems Engineer who is a technical expert in your domain, DevOps, and associated tooling and ways of working.
• Join this world class team in this senior technology leadership role.
• Together we can build simpler and better solutions.

WE’RE INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED AS AN ENGINEER/DEVELOPER WITH EXPERIENCE IN DOMAIN SUCH AS:

• Technology start-ups
• Financial sector
• Software and cloud service providers
• Systems Integrators, and service providers
• Telecommunications
• Large complex environments and businesses, from a people processes and technology aspect

TECH SKILLS

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;
Kubernetes clusters, and operations
Linux O/S
Ceph and MinIO cloud native storage and Linux engineering and tools
Automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform
Source control, and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkis, and Argo CD
Go/Java languages, Bash/Python scripting
VMware solutions, AVI load balancing
Cloud Native network policy such as Calcio
Infrastructure as code pipelines and automation; PowerDNS
Observability with Grafana and Prometheus
General Networking protocols and architectures

• Collaborate with platform engineering squads to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability through the implementation of DevOps & SRE type practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain automation software to continuous integrate, deploy, monitor, and respond to incidents, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
• Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using differing tools and software, ensuring consistent and reproducible infrastructure deployments.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues, optimizing platform performance and reliability.
• Lead efforts to establish and improve monitoring and alerting systems, utilizing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, to identify and address platform performance issues proactively.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, analyse system failures, and implement preventative measures to mitigate future incidents.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the CI/CD pipelines, platform, and applications.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents promptly, working towards resolution and contributing to the continuous improvement of system reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing preventive measures.