11 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimise regulatory data platforms for ingestion, processing, automation, search, and analytics.
- Develop and maintain applications, APIs, integrations, and services across infrastructure, network, data, and application environments.
- Lead delivery and operational support for regulatory systems, including troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and continual improvement.
- Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, delivery partners, and government stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.
- Own services through design, delivery, and operation, including observability, incident response, documentation, mentoring, and engineering practice improvement.
- Ensure compliance, security, confidentiality, risk management, and appropriate handling of sensitive and classified information.
Requirements
- Hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government security clearance, requiring Australian citizenship and at least 10 years of residency in Australia.
- At least 5 years of experience in software development delivering and supporting production applications and services.
- Expert-level Linux systems engineering and administration, including design, build, hardening, automation, and operational support in on-premises environments.
- Expert-level Python application development covering testing, maintainability, performance, and production support.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and MongoDB, including integration, performance tuning, and operational considerations.
- Strong experience in systems design, architecture, APIs, integrations, automation, and data platforms.
- Experience with secure application development and security-by-design, including secure coding, testing, access control, auditability, and vulnerability remediation.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues, optimise performance, improve observability, lead incident response, and drive continual improvement.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence without formal authority across vendors, business units, delivery teams, and government agencies.
- Understanding of security, regulatory compliance, risk management, and secure handling of sensitive and classified information.
- Commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, documentation, mentoring, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices.
- Experience with Django and FastAPI is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts, including an $80 monthly credit, 25% off Optus products, and retail partner discounts.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office and two days remotely or from home.
- Office campus with cafes, convenience store, chill-out zones, GP, post office, gym, and on-site childcare centre.
- Competitive leave policies, including additional Connected days.
- Up to 16 weeks of inclusive, carer-neutral paid parental leave.
- Colleague-led networks and diversity initiatives.
- Free access to counselling and wellbeing support services 24/7.
- Free Optus bus service from Macquarie University Metro Station.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Singtel
Singtel is a Singapore‑headquartered public telecommunications group founded in 1879 that sells mobile, broadband, and enterprise network services to consumers and businesses across Asia-Pacific. It owns Optus in Australia and operates NCS (regional IT services) and Nxera (data centers), and is expanding into AI infrastructure via its RE:AI GPU‑as‑a‑Service. Its revenue comes from connectivity subscriptions and managed services across networks, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital platforms, with equity stakes in regional operators broadening its reach.