# Senior Network Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: Telstra
**Location**: Australia (Flexible)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

In this role, you'll provide technical leadership across the analysis, design, development, and deployment of complex network technologies and platforms.

You'll work at the intersection of 5G RAN, O-RAN, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, and AI-driven network automation, helping translate complex network requirements into scalable, resilient solutions.

You'll also play an important leadership role within the broader engineering community, providing technical thought leadership, mentoring others, and helping uplift capability across the mission and chapter.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, integrate, and maintain complex network technologies, platforms, and systems.

- Translate customer and business requirements into practical network products, services, and infrastructure solutions.

- Drive automation and optimisation across 5G RAN, including PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage, and capacity optimisation.

- Support critical wireless engineering applications through modern DevOps and cloud-native engineering practices.

- Support rApp onboarding, deployment, and lifecycle management, alongside O-RAN service management and orchestration architecture.

- Develop platform-specific technology roadmaps and assess opportunities presented by emerging technologies.

- Evaluate vendor solutions against business and technical requirements and provide technical leadership across vendor delivery.

- Make informed technology investment and business asset recommendations.

- Apply analytics, AI/ML, and automation to network performance optimisation and autonomous network use cases.

- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and perform root cause analysis across network and software environments.

- Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to a culture of high performance, continuous learning, and growth.

**Requirements**

- You're an experienced network and software engineering specialist who combines strong telecommunications domain knowledge with hands-on modern engineering capability.

- You're comfortable working across complex technical environments and can communicate effectively with engineering teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

**Technical Skills**

- Network & telecommunications:

- 5G RAN autonomy, including PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage, and capacity optimisation

- O-RAN service management and orchestration

- Telecom OSS integration, including ENM, SHM, and OSS-RC

- KPI analytics and network performance optimisation

- Autonomous network and AIOps concepts

- Cloud-native & software engineering:

- Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm

- Microservices and REST API integration

- Kafka, PostgreSQL, and MinIO/S3

- GitLab CI/CD and DevOps automation

- Linux environments

- Python, Java, and scripting

- Cloud-native architecture and solution design

- Distributed systems troubleshooting and root cause analysis

- AI, automation & data:

- AI/ML applied to network optimisation and automation

- Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and AI agents

- Data engineering and large-scale telemetry analytics

- Leadership:

- Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management

- Vendor management and technology assessment

- Ability to provide technical thought leadership and mentor others

- A collaborative approach to building engineering capability and sharing knowledge

## Skills

### Required
- 5G RAN
- O-RAN
- cloud-native engineering
- DevOps
- AI-driven network automation
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- Microservices
- REST API integration
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- MinIO/S3
- GitLab CI/CD
- Linux environments
- Python
- Java
- scripting
- Cloud-native architecture
- Distributed systems troubleshooting
- root cause analysis
- AI/ML
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- RAG
- AI agents
- Data engineering
- large-scale telemetry analytics

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