Senior DevOps Platform Architect: Orchestration & Automation

Telstra Singapore; Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Senior Domain Expert - DevOps to lead Nokia NOrC orchestration initiatives and DEaaS platform engineering. You will shape long-term strategy, architect scalable automation, and drive secure delivery pipelines across production and non-production environments.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, influence vendor roadmaps, and ensure platform resilience and observability while contributing to Telstra's autonomous network evolution.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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 IaC solutions.
• Experience influencing architecture decisions and defining technical strategy for complex enterprise platforms.
• Strong Linux administration, scripting and automation skills, including Python, 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Nokia NOrC orchestration platform and 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.

Skills

DevOps

DevSecOps

Automation

Cloud-native

Platform Eng

CI/CD

GitOps

IaC

Linux

Python

Education

Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent

Tools

Nokia NOrC orchestration

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Senior Domain Expert - DevOps to lead Nokia NOrC orchestration initiatives and DEaaS platform engineering. You will shape long-term strategy, architect scalable automation, and drive secure delivery pipelines across production and non-production environments.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, influence vendor roadmaps, and ensure platform resilience and observability while contributing to Telstra's autonomous network evolution.