Senior Platform Engineer

We don’t sit back and wait for the future to happen, we are out there crafting our own path through new technology, innovation, and investment. We are truly a challenger brand, with challenger spirit.

We're seeking multiple roles of Platform Engineer to join Optus’ newest engineering function, the Tech Foundations Tribe!

As a Platform Engineer within the Tribe, you will work within one of our autonomous squads that build, run and own technical products which our feature teams rely upon to provide innovative experiences for our external customers. You will be empowered to apply your software or systems engineering background to ensure our products are simple to consume and scale in the face of their growing popularity with our internal customers, while helping embed practices like SRE to ensure a healthy balance between innovation and operational excellence.

Our platform engineers are customer focused, passionate about product-thinking, and love to apply engineering to ensure these achievements are long-lasting. They use their experience and appetite for continuously learning to answer open questions like:

• How can we make the experience of our engineers exciting on Day 1, and equally amazing on Day 1000?
• How can we make it easy for developers to securely build and deploy APIs?
• How can we embed security through our software development lifecycle, without loading teams up with more processes and meetings?

If you are inspired to build sustainable solutions to these questions, have a passion for engineering excellence and are experienced in product development, we invite you to join our dedicated team in revolutionising engineering at Optus.

Ready to reimagine your career at Optus?

• Building and operating scalable, reliable, and secure technical products that meet business requirements and maximise the productivity of our feature teams.
• Working with internal customers – developers, builder teams, and engineering leaders - to continuously improve their user experience.
• Identifying opportunities to simplify processes by adopting modern practices and technologies.

These skills will rocket you to success!

• Experience working in platform engineering teams and developing technical products to solve business problems and challenges.
• Hands-on experience in software development, with a strong background in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• A passion for building and supporting interfaces (APIs, Portals, documentation) which encourage and promote self-service.
• Expertise working with cloud and/or container platforms.
• Strong interpersonal skills to navigate complex technical environments with ease.

The good stuff …

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 14 weeks for the primary care giver
• All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue – even earn a MBA micro-credential via OptusU (University)
• Connect at work through one of our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans and Yarn Network
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

At Optus, we have an ambitious goal to be Australia’s most loved everyday brand. Curious about our culture? Go behind the scenes with our people by searching #OptusLife on LinkedIn.

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. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au along with your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch.

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