Hybrid Principal Platform Engineer – Storage Engineering

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About the role

  • Principal Platform Engineer responsible for architecting enterprise storage platforms at CBA. Leading design and delivery across on-prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise storage platforms, including block, file, object, and backup storage solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.
  • Act as the principal technical lead and solution architect, guiding teams through complex storage deployments, migrations, and optimisation initiatives.
  • Own the technical strategy and roadmap for storage services, ensuring alignment to broader platform engineering and cloud transformation strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with vendors, engineering squads, and internal stakeholders to ensure performance, scalability, and seamless integration of storage platforms.
  • Drive adoption of automation and infrastructure as code practices using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to streamline provisioning and lifecycle management.
  • Ensure storage platforms incorporate robust observability, telemetry, and monitoring, leveraging technologies such as Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Maintain high standards of resilience, availability, compliance, and operational excellence across all storage services.
  • Provide technical mentorship and leadership across storage engineering and operations teams, uplifting capability and driving best practice engineering.
  • Play a key role in major incident and problem management, including diagnosing complex storage issues and guiding recovery efforts in critical scenarios.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in platform, infrastructure, or storage engineering at enterprise scale.
  • Deep technical expertise across enterprise storage and backup technologies, including VMAX, Data Domain, Commvault, Netapp, ObjectScale and related enterprise storage arrays.
  • Extensive experience designing and implementing high-performance, highly available storage architectures in large, complex environments.
  • Strong understanding of AWS and cloud-based storage patterns.
  • Strong experience with VMware on-prem environments.
  • Proficiency with automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible) for consistent and repeatable storage platform provisioning.
  • Experience with observability tooling and integrating monitoring into platform design.
  • Demonstrated success in leading technical teams, influencing architecture decisions, and delivering complex engineering solutions.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and integrity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with regular in-person collaboration in office, including critical vendor and engineering workshops.
  • Dynamic, delivery-focused environment with multiple concurrent programs and high expectations for technical leadership.

Job title

Principal Platform Engineer – Storage Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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