Engineering Senior Manager

Engineering Senior Manager – SRE Resiliency & Availability

About the Team

• The SRE Resiliency & Availability team is at the forefront of automation, cloud service engineering, and AI-driven solutions
• We operate in a fast-paced environment, delivering cutting-edge capabilities that place customers at the centre of everything we do

Do work that matters

CommBank leads the industry in IT and operations through world-class platforms, agile infrastructure, and innovation across payments, internet banking, and mobile experiences. Here, you’ll turn your passion into impact—working on state-of-the-art projects that enable seamless, resilient, and secure customer experiences.

You’re naturally curious, continuously learning, and eager to share insights and new ways of working. You take pride in honing your craft both inside and outside of work and actively contribute to the broader engineering community.

See yourself in our team

As part of the SRE Resiliency & Availability team, you’ll drive initiatives that embed Machine Learning, Generative AI, and automation into our resiliency strategy. Our mission is to simplify and automate compliance, observability, and resilience, enabling engineers to focus on innovation and speed.

The team owns strategic platforms that enable resilience engineering, recovery assurance, service dependency transparency, and resilience governance across the enterprise. These capabilities support engineering teams in understanding critical service dependencies, validating resilience controls, and improving operational resilience outcomes through automation and self-service experiences.

You’ll collaborate with experienced senior engineers and play a key role in developing the next generation of talent, solving real-world challenges that impact millions of customers.

Who you are

You thrive under pressure and know how to leverage the strengths of your team to deliver exceptional outcomes. You’re a strategic thinker and problem solver who can translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.

Your Impact

As Senior Engineering Manager, you will

• Lead initiatives to create technical automation/AI solutions for governance and control processes across critical IT domains
• Champion DevSecOps transformation and embed resiliency practices across engineering teams
• Drive adoption of AI and automation to improve system reliability and reduce operational risk

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead engineering initiatives that strengthen operational resilience, recovery assurance, dependency transparency, and regulatory compliance obligations
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Ab ility to manage complex tasks across the team and deliver effectively pivot on priorities

Technical Delivery

• Drive initiatives to automate governance and control processes across critical IT domains
• Identify and implement opportunities to eliminate manual operations through scalable solutions
• Champion adoption of AI, Machine Learning, and automation to improve system reliability and reduce operational risk
• Define and track engineering, reliability, adoption, and operational risk metrics to demonstrate platform effectiveness and business value

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with senior technology leaders to align resiliency objectives with business priorities
• Communicate technical strategies and outcomes to non-technical stakeholders effectively

Talent Development

• Mentor and coach engineers, including graduates, to build future technical leaders
• Promote knowledge sharing and best practices across engineering teams

Required Skills

• Experience leading platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise-scale engineering organisations
• Experience influencing engineering practices across multiple teams rather than a single delivery team
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, service continuity, disaster recovery, observability, and control automation
• Demonstrated success developing senior engineers and engineering leaders

Preferred Skills

• Experience operating within highly regulated environments
• Experience with operational resilience frameworks, recovery testing, service dependency mapping, and resilience engineering
• Experience building internal engineering products and self-service platforms
• Familiarity with APRA Prudential Standards including CPS 230

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on state-of-the-art projects impacting millions of customers
• A collaborative environment that values innovation and continuous learning
• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies in cloud, automation, and AI

Working with us

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

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half your time each month connecting in our Sydney 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.

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

If you're ready to take your engineering skills to the next level, apply now and become a part of our exceptional team!

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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