# Senior Domain Expert – DevOps **Company**: Telstra **Location**: Australia (Flexible) **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://telstra.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Telstra_Careers/job/Australia-Flexible/Senior-Domain-Expert---DevOps_JR-10176299-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_700ec81c-90f ## Description As a recognised subject matter expert, you will solve highly complex technical challenges, influence outcomes beyond the immediate platform and provide thought leadership across orchestration, automation, reliability engineering and platform engineering disciplines. **Job Description** As a Senior Domain Expert - DevOps, you will: - Provide technical leadership for the Nokia NOrC orchestration platform and associated DEaaS capabilities across production and non-production environments. - Define and influence the long-term strategy, architecture and evolution of orchestration and automation platforms across the DEaaS Mission. - Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of DevOps, DevSecOps and Platform Engineering practices, ensuring secure, consistent and automated delivery pipelines. - Collaborate with Product Owners, TPOs, architects and engineering teams to define platform roadmaps, capability investments and technical priorities. - Design, integrate, operate and continuously improve complex orchestration, automation and network management platforms. - Drive automation initiatives that improve reliability, operational efficiency, deployment velocity, service quality and customer outcomes. - Champion platform resilience, security, observability, operational readiness and service reliability practices. - Provide expert-level troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, conducting detailed root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements. - Establish engineering standards, governance frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns and technical best practices across multiple teams. - Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and vendor solutions to support future platform evolution and Telstra's Autonomous Network strategy. - Influence vendor roadmaps and ensure external solutions align with Telstra's business, operational and technology objectives. - Drive cross-domain technology alignment, standardisation and simplification initiatives to reduce complexity and maximise capability reuse. - Represent the DEaaS Orchestration Mission in architecture review boards, governance forums, technical steering committees and strategic vendor engagements. - Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to engineers and technical specialists, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation and operational excellence. - Support governance activities by providing updates on platform health, delivery progress, risks, dependencies, investment opportunities and strategic initiatives. - Lead or contribute to major transformation, modernisation, migration and platform upgrade initiatives. - Participate in on-call and out-of-hours support activities as required to maintain critical business services. **Essential** - 10+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps or Telecommunications Technology environments. - Extensive hands-on experience deploying, configuring and supporting Nokia NOrC orchestration solutions. - Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent practical experience. - Deep technical expertise in DevOps, DevSecOps, automation, cloud-native and platform engineering practices. - Strong understanding of service orchestration, workflow automation, telecommunications OSS environments and operational support platforms. - Proven experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. - Experience influencing architecture decisions and defining technical strategy for complex enterprise platforms. - Strong Linux administration, scripting and automation skills, including Python, Ansible and Bash. - Experience operating mission-critical platforms with demanding availability, resilience, performance and security requirements. - Experience implementing observability, monitoring and operational excellence practices. - Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues within large-scale production environments. - Experience establishing engineering standards, governance frameworks and platform best practices. - Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps operating models. - Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills across technical and business audiences. **Highly Desirable** - Hands-on experience within Telstra's DEaaS environments. - Working knowledge of telecommunications OSS/BSS architectures and network domain operations. - Experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, SLOs and reliability frameworks. - Experience integrating enterprise platforms through APIs, event-driven architectures and microservices. - Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus and modern observability platforms. - Strong understanding of cyber security, DevSecOps controls and secure software delivery practices. - Experience managing large-scale platform upgrades, migrations and transformation initiatives. - Understanding of inventory, catalogue, assurance and orchestration ecosystems within telecommunications environments. - Experience developing strategic technology roadmaps and capability uplift plans. - Experience influencing enterprise architecture and technology investment decisions. - Knowledge of Autonomous Networks, AIOps and AI-driven operational automation. - Vendor management and commercial experience relating to enterprise software platforms. ## Skills ### Required - Software Engineering - Platform Engineering - DevOps - DevSecOps - Telecommunications Technology - Nokia NOrC orchestration solutions - Linux administration - scripting - automation - Python - Ansible - Bash - CI/CD pipelines - GitOps practices - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions ### Nice to have - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices - SLOs - reliability frameworks - APIs - event-driven architectures - microservices - GitLab - Jenkins - Artifactory - Splunk - Grafana - Dynatrace - Prometheus - modern observability platforms - Autonomous Networks - AIOps - AI-driven operational automation --- Source: [Apply at telstra.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://telstra.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Telstra_Careers/job/Australia-Flexible/Senior-Domain-Expert---DevOps_JR-10176299-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)