You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor others, and champion reliability and automation across our infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone who values collaboration, continuous learning, and making a meaningful impact through technology.
This is a permanent, full-time role.
At Aussie Broadband we believe difference is something to celebrate. Being advocates for Inclusion and Diversity means our team can bring their whole selves to work and allows us to better represent our customers and the communities that we serve. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, supporting and celebrating difference is just one way that we demonstrate our value of ‘Be good to people’ everyday.
Join us as we continue to grow and make a mark as the 5th largest telco in Australia!
Why work for Aussie?
Founded in regional Victoria almost 20 years ago, we are local from the ground up. What started in a living room in Morwell, has now expanded to every corner of Australia - we’re growing fast and not slowing down!
Our fantastic culture lives and breathes our values:
Don't be ordinary, be awesome
Think BIG
No bullsh*t
Be good to people
Have fun
We are proud to be a B Corp Certified company, which means we’re good to our people, our customers, and the planet by maintaining the highest standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
We care about our community through our Pledge 1% commitment, sponsorship programs and our paid staff community service leave offering.
But don’t just take our word for it – We have been named one of the top employers in Australia by HRD magazine.
The good stuff
26 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers (in addition to any government-paid leave)
Discounted internet up to the value of $109 per month
20% off our Mobile services
Day to day benefits like flexible working arrangements, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), discounts with big names like Specsavers, HCF and many more
Celebrating you! With monthly rewards and recognition
Internal training and resources for you to continue to learn, grow and achieve your career goals
Yearly allowance for amazing Aussie merch
Fitness Passport for access to multiple gyms and pools across Australia
Let’s talk about you
You’re curious, generous with your knowledge, and motivated by purpose-driven outcomes.
Builds trust through clear communication and inclusive teamwork
Enjoys mentoring and supporting others to grow
Champion open-source technologies and bring passion about open standards and developments
Brings a calm, considered approach to problem-solving
Values empathy, adaptability and resilience in fast-paced environments
Have extensive experience with Kubernetes, Linux, and infrastructure-as-code tools
Understands the importance of observability, security, and scalability
Is comfortable taking ownership of projects and seeing them through
Is open to learning and evolving with the needs of the team and business
How will you support our “Why?”
At Aussie Broadband, our purpose is to connect people with passion. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll help bring this to life by designing and maintaining platforms that are secure, scalable and empowering—for our team and our customers. You’ll be a key contributor to our engineering culture, helping shape the way we work and grow together.
Design and evolve platform architecture with a shift-left mindset to ensure availability, security and reliability.
Apply your understanding of the telco industry and industry/open-source standards to inform technical choices
Structure and run reliability practices including monitoring and incident response
Support multiple development and operations teams with automation, platforms and systems.
Build, operate and enhance service mesh technologies and multi-cluster architectures
Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of learning
Continuously improve performance, cost-efficiency and developer experience of all systems.
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability
Champion version control and automation tools (e.g. Git, ArgoCD, CI/CD)
Apply, build and structure networking concepts in containerised environments
Design systems with a security-first mindset, including encryption, segmentation, and compliance
Script in Go or Python (a bonus, not a must)
Ready to join?
Hit the apply button to submit your application and our fantastic team will be in touch!
Even if you feel you don’t meet all the requirements, we’d still love to hear your story. We like to think outside the box with the people we hire.
If you have any questions, get in touch today with our team at [email protected]
Just a heads up, we can’t take applications through email, so make sure you apply via the job link we've set for this role, so you don't miss out!
