Technical Specialist - NaaS Exposure

It starts with YES! 

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company, delivering more than 11 million services to our customers every day across mobile, broadband and digital solutions. 

About the role

As a Technical Specialist, NaaS Exposure (API Gateway Platform Owner), you will lead the strategy, governance and ongoing evolution of Optus' API Gateway platform within the Network as a Service (NaaS) domain. Partnering across Network, Security, Operations and Product teams, you will ensure the platform remains secure, scalable and operationally resilient while driving adoption, governing integrations and enabling network modernisation through a seamless API ecosystem.

Your day to day

• Own and evolve the API Gateway platform strategy, roadmap, governance framework, and service portfolio, ensuring alignment with NaaS objectives, network transformation initiatives, and business requirements.
• Lead platform operations and lifecycle management, including capacity planning, licensing, observability, security governance, compliance, patching, upgrades, resiliency, and end-of-life risk mitigation.
• Establish and maintain platform standards, documentation, integration patterns, and service governance processes, including API design, interface contracts, access management, onboarding/offboarding, and connectivity requirements.
• Drive stakeholder, vendor, and operational engagement by managing change activities, support contracts, procurement assessments, migration planning, incident support, and collaboration across the broader NaaS Exposure portfolio.

What makes you perfect for the role? 

• Demonstrated experience in platform or product ownership within telecommunications, networking, cloud, or infrastructure environments, supported by a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with strong knowledge of API gateway technologies, API lifecycle management, integration patterns, and enterprise service delivery.
• Strong technical expertise in platform security, compliance, and risk management, including identity and access controls, vulnerability management, certificate lifecycle administration, cyber governance, and patching frameworks.
• Proven ability to develop and execute platform roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, observability models, and change management processes to support secure, resilient, and scalable services in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and commercial management skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams, managing procurement and contracts, and leveraging automation and enterprise platforms such as Ansible, RHEL, VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and related technologies.

The good stuff… 

• Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts. Make life easier—and more affordable—with $80 monthly credit, 25% off Optus products and unique shopping discounts with our retail partners. 

• Flexible working arrangements designed to support the life you live outside of work. 

• Additional ‘Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community or whatever matters most to you. 

• Inclusive carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks. 

• Invest in your development with Optus U and access to extensive online and facilitated learning opportunities. 

• Build meaningful connections through employee-led networks and diversity initiatives. 

• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, available 24/7 across multiple channels. 

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 accessiblerecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity.