Principal Platform Engineer

Commonwealth Bank

Sydney

2 days ago

Sydney

2 days ago

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Principal Platform Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer specializing in AWS backup, restore, and cyber resilience needed for CommBank's Data Protection & Storage crew. This hands-on technical leadership role involves designing secure backup platforms with Commvault and mentoring engineers in a hybrid Sydney-based position.

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Hybrid

Full-time

Principal

Commvault

AWS

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, AU

Work Model

Hybrid: at least half your time each month in Sydney office

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

CommvaultAWSS3EC2RDSCodeCommitCodeBuildCodeArtifactGuardDutyWiz

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical leadershipproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationsecurity mindset

Tools (Must-have)

CommvaultAWS

Key Responsibilities

•Design and operate enterprise backup and restore platforms using Commvault on AWS
•Engineer air-gapped and isolated recovery environments to support ransomware resilience
•Build and optimise restore strategies, including cross-account recovery
•Develop AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code and DevSecOps practices
•Work at expert level across AWS services including S3, EC2, RDS, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeArtifact, Guard Duty, Wiz and others
•Strengthen security, reliability, and observability of backup and recovery platforms
•Provide principal-level technical leadership, design assurance, and mentoring, influencing platform direction across multiple squads and crews
•Partner closely with security and risk stakeholders to uplift cyber resilience, threat modelling, and recovery assurance
•Design repeatable testing strategies for backup integrity, restore confidence, and disaster recovery scenarios
•Mentor and uplift engineers through coaching, design reviews, and shared engineering patterns
•Accelerate value delivery and innovation by improving engineering velocity through the use of AI
•Contribute to strategic technical decisions, trade-offs, and long-term platform roadmaps

Principal Platform EngineerAWSCommvaultBackupDisaster RecoveryDevSecOpsInfrastructure as CodeCyber ResilienceFinancial ServicesHybrid

Key Responsibilities

•Design and operate enterprise backup and restore platforms using Commvault on AWS

•Engineer air-gapped and isolated recovery environments to support ransomware resilience

•Build and optimise restore strategies, including cross-account recovery

•Develop AWS infrastructure using infrastructure as code and DevSecOps practices

•Work at expert level across AWS services including S3, EC2, RDS, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeArtifact, Guard Duty, Wiz and others

•Strengthen security, reliability, and observability of backup and recovery platforms

•Provide principal-level technical leadership, design assurance, and mentoring, influencing platform direction across multiple squads and crews

•Partner closely with security and risk stakeholders to uplift cyber resilience, threat modelling, and recovery assurance

•Design repeatable testing strategies for backup integrity, restore confidence, and disaster recovery scenarios

•Mentor and uplift engineers through coaching, design reviews, and shared engineering patterns

•Accelerate value delivery and innovation by improving engineering velocity through the use of AI

•Contribute to strategic technical decisions, trade-offs, and long-term platform roadmaps