Senior Network Software Engineering Specialist

About the role

Telstra is hiring a Senior Network Software Engineering Specialist (permanent) to provide technical leadership across the analysis, design, development and deployment of complex network technologies and platforms. The role sits at the intersection of 5G RAN, O-RAN, cloud-native engineering, DevOps and AI-driven network automation, and includes mentoring engineers and contributing technical thought leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, integrate and maintain complex network technologies, platforms and systems, and turn customer and business requirements into practical network products and infrastructure solutions.
• Drive automation and optimisation across 5G RAN, including PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage and capacity.
• Support wireless engineering applications with modern DevOps and cloud-native practices, and support rApp onboarding, deployment and lifecycle management alongside O-RAN service management and orchestration.
• Develop platform technology roadmaps, evaluate vendor solutions and make technology investment recommendations.
• Apply analytics, AI/ML and automation to network performance optimisation and autonomous network use cases, and troubleshoot complex distributed systems with root cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers, share technical knowledge and help build engineering capability.

Required profile

• Experienced network and software engineering specialist combining strong telecom domain knowledge with hands-on modern engineering capability.
• Comfortable in complex technical environments and able to communicate with engineering teams, vendors and senior stakeholders.
• Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management and vendor management, with the ability to mentor others.
• Aligns with Telstra's Big 3 behaviours: Look Beyond, Work as One and Make a Difference.

Required skills

• 5G RAN autonomy (PCI, ANR, mobility, coverage and capacity), O-RAN service management and orchestration, and telecom OSS integration (ENM, SHM, OSS-RC).
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MinIO/S3, GitLab CI/CD, Linux, Python, Java and scripting.
• AI/ML, generative AI, LLMs, RAG and AI agents applied to network optimisation, and large-scale telemetry analytics.