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Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the AI platform strategy, roadmap, and capability maturity plan for operational AI, automation, and autonomous network operations.
- Lead the engineering and industrialisation of scalable, secure, and resilient AI runtime platforms and reusable AI services.
- Drive platform integration, model serving, inference performance, and runtime optimisation across operational systems and data platforms.
- Establish and govern AI FinOps, cost management, security, risk, and operational assurance practices.
- Measure and improve platform performance, availability, adoption, capacity utilisation, and operational value.
- Lead cross-functional teams, stakeholder engagement, strategic technology partnerships, and development of the AI platform engineering capability.
Requirements
- Experience engineering and operating enterprise AI/ML platforms, model-serving environments, or high-scale runtime services.
- Strong knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud, GPU/CPU compute, model routing, inference, vector databases, observability, and modern platform engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of AI FinOps, consumption-based cost management, capacity optimisation, and commercial management of cloud and AI services.
- Ability to define platform strategy, engineering standards, governance, and roadmaps and translate them into measurable operational outcomes.
- Ability to lead cross-domain teams and influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Security, Finance, and Technology.
- Strong commercial, financial, and vendor-management capability, including investment prioritisation, contract performance, and value realisation.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/AI, or Technology, or equivalent significant industry experience.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration and employee discounts, including $80 monthly credit, 25% off Optus products, and retail-partner discounts.
- Flexible working arrangements with three days in the office and two days remote or home-based.
- Competitive leave policies, including additional Connected days.
- Up to 16 weeks of inclusive, carer-neutral paid parental leave.
- Professional development through Optus U micro-credentials developed with La Trobe and Macquarie Universities.
- Employee-led networks and diversity initiatives, including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, and Express Yourself.
- Free 24/7 counselling and wellbeing support services.
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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.