Executive Manager Site Reliability Engineering

Location: Sydney CBD Area

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

• Join us and lead our Site Reliability Engineering team to define and deliver world class observability and reliability tooling and practices at Australia’s largest bank. 

• Position the core Site Reliability team to support an uplift in engineering culture as part of a DevSecOps transformation.

• Represent SRE practices, hiring, and talent development with SRE groups across the bank.

Do work that matters 

We’re accelerating our DevSecOps transformation with an ambition to provide customers with one of the best digital experiences of any company globally. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is key to us achieving this goal. Our teams set the practices and develop the tooling that allows us to maintain the highest standards of service outcomes for our customers. 

We're proud of our people and technology culture. Our SRE team marries both, by applying Software Engineering principles to our operational services and implements modern observability practices.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your 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. Talk to us about how these arrangements might work for you.

See yourself in our team 

Our mission is to help build best in class systems that unites technologies and allows teams to deliver products in a safely and quickly.

As an Executive Manager Site Reliability Engineering, you will Lead a team of engineering professionals to deliver value to the organisation and its customers. You will Define roadmaps to promote and embed a positive engineering culture, ensuring alignment at practice level. 

We’re interested in hearing from people who can: 

• Support Engineering Managers/Chapter Leads to build, lead and inspire engaged teams of Engineers. 

• Implement, evolve and support consistent ways of working across the domain and CBA that align to industry standards. 

• Co-define with Engineering Practice Leads and implement strategies with respect to hiring, developing and retaining world class engineering talent and develop metrics to measure their execution and understand the value of and enable growth of diverse teams. 

• Support Engineering Practice Leads to influence change that increases the flow of valuable engineering outcomes.

• Role model a culture of engineering empowerment, autonomy, psychological safety and constructive challenge. 

• Establish excellent relationships demonstrating an enterprise mindset across the Engineering Community and with delivery stakeholders. 

• Support teams to allocate time for code review, refactoring and tech debt elimination over feature delivery.

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;

• Excellent level of technical domain knowledge relevant to the Site Reliability Engineering 

• Expert level experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar 

• Proficiency level experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery. 

Working with us

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

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

Here, you’ll thrive. You’ll be supported when faced with challenges and empowered to tackle new opportunities. We’re hiring engineers from across all of our technology hubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. We really love working here, and we think you will too.

If this sounds like you, apply now!

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