Job Description

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband, and digital solutions.

Are you ready to take on an ambitious role that will challenge and encourage you? Join our dynamic Critical Network Services team as a Solution Architect and contribute to the support, build development, maintenance, and improvement of key Optus Broadband Internet platforms and services, including NBN and Automations.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work with a world-class team dedicated to delivering outstanding solutions in a collaborative environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Successfully collaborating with business and technical groups to provide business and technical architecture for existing and new products
• Crafting infrastructure and applications for ISP core systems
• Building and launching software for ISP environments and automations
• Crafting satisfactory design documents and leading all aspects of project implementation from consulting to production
• Conducting detailed project and system documentation
• Communicating effectively with peers and management within and outside the team

What You Bring:

• Proven track record of crafting, developing, and deploying software in test and production environments
• Experience being accountable for the build, development, support, and maintenance of systems serving enterprise needs
• Around 5 years of experience in project and system documentation, especially within an agile environment
• Proficiency in GoLang, Perl, Python, Docker in a Linux environment, with a focus on Red Hat Linux and open-source technology
• Strong knowledge of IP and Internet Protocols, software development lifecycles, and agile methodologies
• Excellent documentation skills and clear communication in written and spoken English
• Familiarity with system administration and software development, particularly in Unix environments
• Experience with database systems such as SQL, MySQL, and Postgres

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and outstanding shopping discounts with our retail partners
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill-out zones, GP, post office, gym, and on-site childcare centre
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks
• Direct your development and build future-ready skills with Optus U’s industry-focused micro-credentials, developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities
• Build meaningful connections through colleague-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in-person, by phone, SMS, or video
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive.

If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity