Senior Technical Specialist

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

As a Senior Technical Specialist in Optics, you will assist in guiding the onboarding, management, and engineering delivery of optical transport platforms within our DWDM network.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and govern the onboarding process for new optical network platforms, ensuring alignment with corporate standards, architecture principles, and operational readiness requirements.
• Coordinate the complete lifecycle management of optical transport platforms, encompassing capacity augmentation, software upgrades, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive engineering documentation, configuration standards, and operational handover materials.
• Plan and complete laboratory evaluations, integration testing, and field validation prior to production deployment.
• Collaborate with key technology partners and vendors to ensure performance compliance, stability, and support alignment across all optical platforms.
• Drive engineering automation and analytics initiatives to improve efficiency and accuracy in provisioning and monitoring.
• Partner with Operations, Service Assurance, and Architecture teams to maintain service integrity and deliver strategic improvements to the Optical network.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in DWDM optical transport systems, encompassing architectural development, platform deployment, and operations support.
• Plan, conduct, and document activities within the Optical environment, supporting technology trials, feature testing, interoperability validation, and pre-deployment certification.
• Proven expertise in platform configuration, testing, and commissioning across multiple vendor environments, with strong emphasis on Nokia technologies; knowledge of Infinera and Ribbon is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of Network and Transport Layer integration, including SDH, Carrier Ethernet, and Synchronisation dependencies.
• Demonstrated capability in automation development and use of APIs or orchestration tools for network engineering and management.
• Experience working across multi-domain environments including Mobile, Fixed, NBN, CPC, IPIC, and IGR network integrations.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and partner management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and vendor teams.

The good stuff….

• 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