Staff Platform Engineer (SAP Basis Hana)

• Organization:

At CommBank, we're building tomorrow’s bank today, which means we need creative and diverse engineers to help us redefine what customers expect from a bank. Envisioning new technologies that are waiting to be invented and reimagining products that support our customers and help build Australia’s future economy.

• Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer

• Location: Bangalore

• Business & Team: Retail Technology

• Impact & Contribution:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Full Cycle Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, testing, and automation, with a passion for DevOps and a systematic approach to solving complex problems. This role requires excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, experience in leading teams, and a deep understanding of the infrastructure that runs .NET applications

• Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for SAP Platform Engineering, SAP Basis, SAP HANA, and AWS Cloud, driving platform modernization, resilience, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Lead the implementation, upgrade, migration, and operations support of large-scale SAP and SAP HANA landscapes across production and non-production environments.
• Manage SAP lifecycle activities including upgrades, enhancement/support packs, kernel upgrades, add-on installations, SSL certificate management, system refreshes, and migrations using SUM, DMO, and ZDO methodologies.
• Oversee SAP HANA engineering and administration, including installations, upgrades, system replication (HSR), high availability/disaster recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and database optimization.
• Drive AWS-hosted SAP platform operations on Red Hat Linux, leveraging clustering technologies such as Pacemaker, while ensuring scalability, availability, security, and cost optimization.
• Provide leadership for L3 production support, managing major incidents, problem management, change and release activities, root cause analysis, and service reliability improvements to meet SLA commitments.
• Champion DevOps, SRE, observability, and automation practices through monitoring, telemetry, alerting, self-healing capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including SAP Functional, ABAP, Security, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and external vendors, leading architecture reviews, governance forums, and geographically distributed engineering teams.

• Essential Skills:

12+ years of hands-on SAP Basis and SAP HANA experience

supporting large-scale enterprise SAP environments.

• Strong leadership experience across Engineering, Operations and DevOps functions.

• Deep expertise in:

  • SAP Basis Administration
  • SAP HANA Administration
  • Scale-Up & Scale-Out Architectures
  • High Availability & Disaster Recovery
  • SAP Upgrades and Migrations
  • AWS Cloud Operations
  • Linux Administration (RHEL & SUSE)

• Demonstrated experience leading complex SAP cloud transformation programs.

• Proven experience managing production support and critical business platforms.

• Strong knowledge of:

  • Incident Management
  • Major Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change & Release Management
  • Service Transition
  • Operational Readiness

• Experience managing and mentoring engineering teams and technical specialists.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

• Education Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.

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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