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.

This role provides technical leadership in planning and designing IP and Carrier Ethernet networks, with a strong focus on capacity forecasting, performance analysis, and supporting network investment decisions. It involves developing detailed engineering plans, conducting modelling and feasibility studies, and ensuring network performance meets business KPIs across Mobile, Enterprise, and NBN backhaul services. The position also collaborates with vendors, supports RFI/RFP processes, maintains network inventory, and drives cost optimisation through accurate analysis and planning.

Your day to day will consist of

• Develop network plans for building and scaling the Access Network to support long-term growth across Consumer, Enterprise, and Mobile services.
• Manage network capacity and performance to ensure alignment with agreed KPIs.
• Design and plan Access Network infrastructure, including POI, metro, and regional IP access aggregation layers.
• Conduct cost-benefit analyses, recommend upgrade or rearrangement strategies, and initiate builds through planning notices.
• Resolve complex fibre design challenges and identify integration opportunities across underground and aerial networks, aligning with broader Transport and Network strategies.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to deliver fibre planning projects, support enterprise bids, ensure resiliency in design, and provide technical guidance and representation in infrastructure initiatives.

What makes you perfect for the role

• Sets strategic direction for network growth, modernization, and cost optimisation aligned with business objectives.
• Drives cross-functional collaboration across Architecture, Deployment, Finance, Regulatory, and vendor teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• Oversees program governance for large-scale initiatives, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to required standards.
• Manages vendor and stakeholder relationships, including negotiations and executive engagement.
• Builds and develops high-performing teams, supporting succession planning and continuous capability growth.
• Provides technical leadership across access network architecture, capacity and performance planning, cost modelling, technology evaluation, and process automation.

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.
• 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.

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