Senior Network Engineer

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

At Optus Enterprise, we help organisations transform and optimise their technology environments through innovative networking, security, collaboration, and infrastructure solutions. We're looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join our Professional Services Engineering team and play a key role in designing, implementing, and supporting complex customer solutions.  

This is an opportunity to work with enterprise customers across a diverse range of technologies while providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and contributing to high-impact projects.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement and support enterprise network, security, wireless and collaboration solutions for a diverse range of enterprise customers.  
• Lead technical delivery activities, including solution design, deployment, testing, migrations and ongoing optimisation.   
• Provide technical leadership on customer projects, ensuring successful outcomes across quality, performance and delivery objectives.  
• Work closely with Project Managers, Architects, Sales teams and customers to develop and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.  
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex networking and infrastructure issues, providing expert guidance and escalation support where required.   
• Contribute to pre-sales activities, including solution reviews, technical scoping and effort estimation for customer proposals.   
• Mentor and support engineers across the broader team, sharing knowledge and driving technical excellence.   
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, technical standards and best-practice delivery frameworks.   

What makes you perfect

• Radio access networks(RAN) design and deployment experience
• Telecom Infrastructure (3G/4G/5G RAN, Power Systems) experience
• Experience in Network engineering within enterprise or managed services environments.   
• Expertise in routing and switching, network security, wireless, MPLS, VPNs and related technologies.   
• Experience designing, deploying and supporting large-scale network solutions.   
• Strong customer engagement, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.   
• The ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.  
• Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE or equivalent will be highly regarded.  

What's in it for you?

• Competitive remuneration and employee discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and unique 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 own 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 employee-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.

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. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours.

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