E2E Operational Resilience Lead

Singapore Telecommunications; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration & discounts

Parental leave up to 16 weeks

Professional development via Optus U

Diversity networks and inclusion

Counselling and wellbeing support

Job summary

Optus in Sydney seeks an experienced End-to-End Operational Resilience Lead to strengthen service resilience, readiness, and recovery across mobile and fixed networks, linking customer impact with technology dependencies. You will lead during major incidents, drive learning and improvements, and influence outcomes through collaboration and strategic leadership rather than direct control.

This senior role requires broad telecoms knowledge, systems thinking, and the ability to align teams to

Qualifications

• Strong operational leadership with proven performance under high-pressure incidents.
• Experience in complex telecommunications or critical infrastructure environments.
• Broad end-to-end understanding of telecom services and dependencies.
• Ability to influence outcomes across teams without formal authority.
• Proven ability to drive resilience improvements and organizational learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior end-to-end operational leadership during significant customer-impacting events, linking customer experience, service behavior, and technology dependencies.
• Assess customer impact, service dependencies, risks, and priorities to support informed decisions during complex scenarios.
• Build and maintain an end-to-end view of services across technology, operations, and suppliers to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to service readiness reviews, major change activity, and operational assurance with clear implementation considerations.
• Lead organizational learning through service reviews and assessments to improve performance and outcomes.
• Strengthen capability by mentoring teams and coordinating across Operations, Engineering, Problem Management, and Transformation.

Skills

operational leadership

incident response

cross-functional collaboration

telecommunications expertise

systems thinking

stakeholder management

Tools

Major incident tooling

Service readiness reviews

Job description

Every day, millions of Australians connect, work, stream, and stay in touch on the Optus network. When it works seamlessly, it's easy to take for granted. But behind it is a team making thousands of decisions every day - decisions that keep people, businesses and communities connected.

Right now, Optus is passionate about getting the fundamentals right - simplifying how we work, lifting standards, and building a more reliable, resilient experience for our customers. It's not about surface-level change. It's about how we make decisions, how we work together, and how we deliver.

The End-to-End Operational Resilience Lead provides senior cross-functional leadership to strengthen service resilience, operational readiness, and recovery across Optus's mobile and fixed network environments, with a focus on understanding end-to-end service dependencies and customer impacts. Leveraging deep technical and operational expertise, the role supports major incident response, drives organisational learning and continuous improvement, and influences resilience outcomes through judgement, collaboration, and strategic leadership rather than direct operational control.

Your day to day will consist of

• Provide senior end-to-end operational leadership during significant customer-impacting events, connecting customer experience, service behaviour, and technology dependencies to support coordinated decision-making and effective service outcomes.

• Assess customer impact, service dependencies, operational risks, and business priorities to support informed decision-making during complex service and operational scenarios.

• Build and maintain an end-to-end view of customer services across technology, operational, and supplier domains, identifying service dependencies, risks, opportunities for improvement, and readiness considerations before they affect customers.

• Contribute practical operational insight to service readiness reviews, significant change activity, and operational assurance, including business priorities, operational constraints, and implementation considerations.

• Lead organisational learning through service reviews and operational assessments, capturing insights and driving improvements in service performance, customer outcomes, and operational effectiveness.

• Strengthen operational capability by maintaining service knowledge, mentoring teams, and influencing outcomes across Operations, Engineering, Problem Management, and Transformation functions.

What makes you perfect for the role

• Demonstrates strong operational leadership, sound judgement, and the ability to perform effectively during high-pressure, customer-impacting events.


• Possesses significant experience in complex telecommunications or critical infrastructure environments, with expertise across multiple network and technology domains.


• Maintains a broad end-to-end understanding of telecommunications services, including mobile, fixed, IP, core, infrastructure, applications, and supplier ecosystems.


• Understands network operations, service dependencies, failure modes, recoverability, and the principles of major incident response and service restoration.


• Applies systems thinking, structured investigation, and evidence-based problem-solving to connect issues across technology, service, and organisational boundaries.


• Influences outcomes and builds trusted relationships across diverse teams and senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.


• Drives operational resilience and continuous improvement by enhancing readiness, recovery practices, organisational learning, and capability development through practical operational experience.

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 ***************@optus.com.au or call 18

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