Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, integrating, and deploying complex network platforms. Drives 5G RAN and O-RAN automation, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, AI/ML-based network optimization, and distributed-systems troubleshooting. Responsibilities include technology roadmaps, vendor assessment, technical investment recommendations, rApp lifecycle management, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, and engineering capability development.
Employment TypePermanentClosing Date6 Nov 2026 11:59pmJob TitleSenior Network Software Engineering Specialist
You’ll also play an important leadership role within the broader engineering community, providing technical thought leadership, mentoring others and helping uplift capability across the mission and chapter.Job Description
Job Summary
In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership across the analysis, design, development and deployment of complex network technologies and platforms. You’ll work at the intersection of 5G RAN, O-RAN, cloud-native engineering, DevOps and AI-driven network automation, helping translate complex network requirements into scalable, resilient solutions.You’ll also play an important leadership role within the broader engineering community, providing technical thought leadership, mentoring others and helping uplift capability across the mission and chapter.Job Description
What you’ll do
- Design, build, integrate and maintain complex network technologies, platforms and systems.
- Translate customer and business requirements into practical network products, services and infrastructure solutions.
- Drive automation and optimisation across 5G RAN, including PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage and capacity optimisation.
- Support critical wireless engineering applications through modern DevOps and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Support rApp onboarding, deployment and lifecycle management, alongside O-RAN service management and orchestration architecture.
- Develop platform-specific technology roadmaps and assess opportunities presented by emerging technologies.
- Evaluate vendor solutions against business and technical requirements and provide technical leadership across vendor delivery.
- Make informed technology investment and business asset recommendations.
- Apply analytics, AI/ML and automation to network performance optimisation and autonomous network use cases.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and perform root cause analysis across network and software environments.
- Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge and contribute to a culture of high performance, continuous learning and growth.
About you
You’re an experienced network and software engineering specialist who combines strong telecommunications domain knowledge with hands-on modern engineering capability. You’re comfortable working across complex technical environments and can communicate effectively with engineering teams, vendors and senior stakeholders.
You’ll bring experience across a strong combination of the following:
Network & telecommunications
- 5G RAN autonomy, including PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage and capacity optimisation
- O-RAN service management and orchestration
- Telecom OSS integration, including ENM, SHM and OSS-RC
- KPI analytics and network performance optimisation
- Autonomous network and AIOps concepts
Cloud-native & software engineering
- Kubernetes, Docker and Helm
- Microservices and REST API integration
- Kafka, PostgreSQL and MinIO/S3
- GitLab CI/CD and DevOps automation
- Linux environments
- Python, Java and scripting
- Cloud-native architecture and solution design
- Distributed systems troubleshooting and root cause analysis
AI, automation & data
- AI/ML applied to network optimisation and automation
- Generative AI, LLMs, RAG and AI agents
- Data engineering and large-scale telemetry analytics
Leadership
- Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management
- Vendor management and technology assessment
- Ability to provide technical thought leadership and mentor others
- A collaborative approach to building engineering capability and sharing knowledge
As a Senior Network Software Engineering Specialist, you’ll demonstrate Telstra’s Big 3 behaviours in how you lead, collaborate and deliver:
- Look Beyond – See the big picture when making technical and investment decisions, strive for customers by connecting engineering choices to meaningful outcomes, and learn and adapt as network, cloud and AI technologies evolve.
- Work as One – Listen first to different technical and business perspectives, speak up with your expertise and recommendations, and align and commit with teams, stakeholders and vendors to deliver shared outcomes.
- Make a Difference – Do what matters by focusing on the highest-value network challenges, own it through delivery and problem solving, and act with care when supporting customers, colleagues and the broader engineering community.
Telstra Melbourne, Victoria, AUS Office
242 Exhibition St, Melbourne, VIC , Australia, 3000
Telstra Melbourne, Victoria, AUS Office
Melbourne, Australia
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