AARNet (Australia's Academic and Research Network) Tech Stack
National research network infrastructure and cybersecurity for Australian universities and research institutions
AARNet operates Australia's backbone network for universities, CSIRO, schools, and research institutions—serving over five million end users across the shareholder base of 37 universities. The tech stack is heavily Microsoft-dependent (Active Directory, Azure AD, Exchange, SharePoint, Intune, Defender, Purview) with Oracle Primavera and project-management tools dominating, signaling infrastructure-scale operations focused on both identity/security hygiene and multi-year linear-network construction. Current hiring (11 roles, majority mid-level engineering and operations) clusters around network commissioning, safety-system implementation, and zero-trust security rollout—consistent with active pain points in large-scale infrastructure delivery and contractor coordination.
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What AARNet (Australia's Academic and Research Network) Is Building
◆Challenges
- Delivering large-scale linear infrastructure projects
- Managing multi-year projects
- Complex approvals
- Managing complex multi-contractor schedules
- Identifying schedule risks
- Delays and constraints
- Risk management in testing
- Quality assurance compliance
- Contractor performance issues
- Monitoring safety performance
▲Active Projects
- Long linear fibre projects
- Multi-year corridor-based projects
- National telecommunications infrastructure projects
- Network commissioning
- Implementation of safety management system across project sites
- Verification of critical risk controls
- Incident investigation and reporting
- Streamlining network operational support systems
- Hybrid identity architecture
- Zero trust security implementation