Overview
Senior Cloud Platform Designer role at Commonwealth Bank. We’re driving transformation in how cloud platforms are designed, consumed, and evolved across the organisation. We’re seeking a high-performing and visionary platform designer to shape the future of our cloud ecosystem.
You will be responsible for designing scalable, secure, and reusable cloud platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver faster, safer, and with greater autonomy. This role is critical to our cloud adoption and platform maturity strategy. Together, we will build tomorrow’s bank today—using world-class design, engineering, and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Turn platform vision into reality by designing intuitive, developer-friendly cloud services and workflows. Your work will shape how thousands of engineers interact with our cloud platform, influencing infrastructure provisioning, observability, and compliance.
- Operate as a systems thinker, design strategist, and technical collaborator, solving complex platform challenges and translating them into elegant, usable solutions. Focus on platform experience, automation, and enabling scale.
- Collaborate across teams and share insights, patterns, and ways of working across the cloud and design communities.
Team and Working with us
Our Cloud Foundations crew powers secure, scalable cloud adoption. We design experiences from self-service provisioning to policy-as-code. We value collaboration, inclusivity, and excellence, with flexibility and support to shape cloud at scale.
Qualifications
- Have a proven track record in a public cloud environment; AWS would be advantageous.
- Passionate about Cloud/DevOps/Automation with a systematic approach to solving problems.
- Strong communication skills and ability to interact confidently with stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience designing cloud-native platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, and SaaS hosting models.
- Familiarity with platform product management, service blueprinting, and developer experience design.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM).
- Understanding of cloud scripting languages (YAML, Shell, PowerShell, AWS CLI).
- Understanding of up-to-date application patterns (REST APIs, containers, serverless).
- Strong collaboration and influence with engineering, product, and risk teams; experience in agile environments.
Mindset & Values
- Curious, courageous, and committed to continuous learning.
- Passionate about platform usability, automation, and reducing cognitive load for engineers.
- Advocates for secure-by-design and compliance-aware platform patterns.
Working with Commonwealth Bank
We offer flexibility with hybrid options, supporting balance between in-office and remote work. We are hiring engineers across Australia with hubs in Melbourne and Perth. We provide support and opportunities to grow, with multiple flexible working arrangements including part-time, job share, and varied start/finish times. If this sounds like the role for you, apply today.
Additional
Advertising End Date: 27/09/2025. If you are part of the Commonwealth Bank Group, apply via Sidekick. Accessibility support available through HR Direct at.
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📌 Senior Cloud Platform Designer
🏢 Commonwealth Bank
📍 Melbourne