Senior Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

CommBank is undergoing one of Australia's largest digital transformations and is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager within its Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. The team applies software engineering principles to operational services, using observability practices to keep the banking apps running smoothly for millions of customers. You will lead a medium-sized team of engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Manage a medium-sized team of engineers, covering goal setting, performance, career development and engagement.
• Promote a positive engineering culture, ensure adherence to standards and technical quality, and guide complex technical problem solving.
• Advocate for the embedding of SRE philosophy, principles and practices, including creating and reviewing SLIs, SLOs and SLAs.
• Provide effective leadership, set up peer-to-peer learning and mentoring, and attract, develop and motivate engineering talent.
• Identify technology limitations in existing systems and processes and drive scalable, sustainable improvements.

Required profile

• Experience in SRE philosophy, principles and practices.
• Solid background in system and application performance testing, programming and monitoring, measuring and optimising performance and network communication.
• Ability to design, develop, test and support applications and systems, and to empower teams to manage their own work.

Required skills

• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, BitBucket or TeamCity.
• Scripting and programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, C#, Go or Python.
• Databases and networks.
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems internals and/or networking.