Technical Specialist - Design

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 Technical Specialist - Design, you will play a pivotal role in influencing the Optus Access IP Network by delivering innovative IP and Carrier Ethernet solutions that enable connectivity across metro environments. This position combines strategic design with hands on technical expertise to deliver end to end solution that optimise performance, support future growth and maintain Optus’s position.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the end-to-end design, evaluation, and integration of Access platforms into the Optus network, acting as a subject matter expert in the Access IP domain
• Translate product and capacity requirements into detail technical scoping documents and produce high quality engineering design documentation.
• Develop access network architecture, perform detail design, lab testing and oversee implementation into production environment.
• Maintain and update existing Access IP Infrastructure to meet evolving specifications, performance targets and compliance requirements.
• Define and document Access IP design processes, standards and best practices to ensure consistency and quality.
• Act as a technical interface with internal teams and vendors and ensuring strategic alignment
• Deliver technical training, provide strategic recommendations and offer tier 3 assistance, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Stay informed with current emerging technologies, deliver technical reviews and proposals, and apply design updates to enhance performance and future readiness.

What makes you perfect for the role?

• Expertise in advanced routing, switching, IP and Carrier Ethernet architecture, with hands-on experience across Cisco, Nokia, Juniper platforms.
• Skilled in automation frameworks, scripting (Python), and tools like NSO and Ansible to optimise design and operations.
• Strong knowledge of cyber security standards and platform lifecycle governance for Access networks in regulated environments.
• Proven ability to engage cross-functional teams and deliver technical training to diverse audiences.
• Monitors emerging technologies, conducts technical reviews, and translates complex concepts into clear, actionable insights.
• Ability to produce detail design documentation, troubleshoot complex faults (Tier 3) and communicate clearly to diverse audiences

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