As a Network Engineering-Senior Engineer at Telstra, you play a critical role in ensuring the Telstra network delivers a superior experience for consumers and business customers. Your deep expertise in telecommunications network enables you to provide specialist analysis, design, development, and deployment in network-specific technology domains. By developing platform-specific technology roadmaps and making technology investment recommendations, you contribute significantly to the network's reliability, scalability, and performance.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Work independently to deliver assigned engineering outcomes end-to-end
• Drive work plans and day-to-day decisions aligned to defined mission goals and delivery milestones
• Provide technical leadership for a small team, setting direction and unblocking delivery
• Mentor engineers through coaching, technical review, and pairing to uplift capability and consistency
• Define and maintain engineering standards (design patterns, configuration baselines, testing practices, and quality gates)
• Own technical decision-making, including trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, and operational supportability
• Produce clear, high-quality technical designs that are reviewable, traceable, and implementation-ready
• Author and maintain Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for repeatable change execution
• Create and improve operational runbooks (fault isolation steps, recovery actions, and escalation pathways)
• Apply deep networking expertise to troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues and improve network outcomes
• Champion an automation mindset by identifying repetitive work and creating reusable scripts, checks, and workflows
• Communicate technical context and decisions clearly in writing for engineers, operations, and stakeholders
• Operate as a senior, hands-on engineer, combining leadership with practical delivery and continuous improvement
• *Qualifications Required:**
• 510+ years experience in telecommunications carrier or large enterprise network environments
• Experience working within a telecommunications carrier (Telstra preferred)
• Deep L2/L3 networking expertise at CCNP (or equivalent) level
• Robust Linux operating system proficiency
• Network testing experience using IXIA (or equivalent)
• Proven experience writing and maintaining automation and tooling
• Strong scripting skills in Python
• Strong scripting skills in Bash
• Working knowledge of SQL for query

Telstra, an iconic Australian brand with a global presence, is dedicated to building a connected future where everyone can thrive. By joining Telstra, you become part of a team that prioritizes wellbeing, personal growth, and a human-centric approach to work. Additionally, you gain access to a wide range of learning programs, global opportunities, generous parental leave policies, paid annual and sick leaves, insurance benefits, and relocation support options. As a Network Engineering-Senior Engineer at Telstra, you play a critical role in ensuring the Telstra network delivers a superior experience for consumers and business customers. Your deep expertise in telecommunications network enables you to provide specialist analysis, design, development, and deployment in network-specific technology domains. By developing platform-specific technology roadmaps and making technology investment recommendations, you contribute significantly to the network's reliability, scalability, and performance.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Work independently to deliver assigned engineering outcomes end-to-end
• Drive work plans and day-to-day decisions aligned to defined mission goals and delivery milestones
• Provide technical leadership for a small team, setting direction and unblocking delivery
• Mentor engineers through coaching, technical review, and pairing to uplift capability and consistency
• Define and maintain engineering standards (design patterns, configuration baselines, testing practices, and quality gates)
• Own technical decision-making, including trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, and operational supportability
• Produce clear, high-quality technical designs that are reviewable, traceable, and implementation-ready
• Author and maintain Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for repeatable change execution
• Create and improve operational runbooks (fault isolation steps, recovery actions, and escalation pathways)
• Apply deep networking expertise to troubleshoot complex L2/L3 issues and improve network outcomes
• Champion an automation mindset by identifying repetitive work and creating reusable scripts, checks, and workflows
• Communicate technical context and decisions clearly in writing for engineers, operations, and stakeholders
• Operate as a senior, hands-on engineer, combining leadership with practical delivery and continuous improvement
• *Qualifications Required:**
• 510+ years experience in telecommunications carrier or large enterprise network environments
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