Principal Engineer - DevSecOps

• You are collaborative and enjoy solving analytical problems to help our team to reach highest potential

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading technology and innovation

Do work that matters

We're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are still waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

CommBank is recognised as leading the industry in IT and operations with its world-class platforms and processes, agile IT infrastructure, and innovation in everything from payments to internet banking and mobile apps. Our Software team are the brains behind Australia’s number one banking app, Netbank, Cardless Cash, Comm Sec Pocket and Spend Tracker. We go beyond a passion for web and mobile development, creating reliable APIs at a unique scale in Australia. And you could be a part of that journey.

See yourself in our team:

Payments Technology is responsible for the world-leading application of technology and operations across every aspect of the payments landscape and a core component of the wider business banking - from innovative product platforms for our customers, to essential tools within our business. We also use technology to drive simplicity and better banking, an essential component of great customer service underpinning a strong emphasis on software development as a craft and the adoption of industry best engineering practices.

You’ll be part of High Value and International Payments Crew enabling High Value and Cross Border payment capabilities across CBA's payments ecosystem. We deliver high value and international payment options that are faster, safer, more affordable and transparent, which meets the changing needs of our customers through a seamless digital experience.

As a Principal Engineer, you’ll uplift our engineering, automation, and DevSecOps journey, spearheading the adoption of DevSecOps practices and driving a cultural shift towards security-first development. You’ll help shape the future of our digital platform while focusing on designing, developing, and deploying innovative technology solutions that will enable us to build tomorrow's bank today. You’ll use your skills in the leading the engineers and implementing complex innovative solutions that are scalable, resilient, and efficient. Also, you’ll have a strong risk mindset in ensuring that appropriate security controls are implemented and play a significant mentoring role in providing technical assistance to the engineers in the team.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Drives automation practices and DevSecOps journey for the crew

• Provides overall engineering leadership for the platform including software, systems, quality and site reliability.

• Have ability to design technology solutions to meet the highest possible quality standards while simultaneously balancing security, performance, availability, and maintainability concerns.

• Designs and implements innovative technical solutions to complex problems, including onboarding and migrating to new tooling as well as removing obsolete systems and code.

• Are well versed with solution architecture, technology blueprints, engineering roadmaps, and translating the project vision into actionable plans.

• Encourages risk-taking and constructively challenges the status quo while influencing stakeholders and building diverse and inclusive teams.

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 will set you up for success in this team:

• Expertise with CI/CD and DevSecOps best practices

• Experience building public APIs that support mission critical applications

• Experience building secure, scalable and highly available cloud-native applications

• Ability to contribute to strategy and architecture, and translate this into pragmatic engineering design decisions

• Experience working with Payments or related domains is highly regarded.

• Thorough understanding of large-scale distributed systems, solution design and architecture principles

Working with us:  

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time each month connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.

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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