Australian telco delivering mobile, broadband, and digital services to 11M+ daily customers
Optus operates a large-scale telecommunications infrastructure across mobile, fixed-line, and digital services in Australia. The tech stack reveals a hybrid approach: enterprise process automation (ServiceNow, UiPath, Blue Prism, Celonis) layered over distributed network infrastructure (Cisco, Juniper, MPLS), with cloud adoption (Azure, AWS, GCP) and BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau) supporting analytics. Active adoption of Ansible and Python suggests ongoing automation momentum, while the project backlog emphasizes network expansion, AIOps, and process mining — pointing toward operational efficiency and fault reduction as near-term priorities.
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Optus is a major Australian telecommunications provider serving over 11 million customers daily across mobile, broadband, and digital solutions. The company operates a complex infrastructure spanning mobile networks, internet services (ADSL, fiber, satellite, ethernet), and VPN/APN connectivity. With 5,001–10,000 employees based in Macquarie Park, NSW, Optus runs a sales-led hiring model (115 open sales roles) alongside engineering and operations teams managing network infrastructure, customer service, and IT systems. Active projects include network upgrades, automation workflows, DNS system implementation, and process mining initiatives — reflecting typical telco scaling challenges in a high-volume digital customer service environment.
Optus uses ServiceNow, Cisco, Juniper, Java, SQL, Python, Go, and Linux for core infrastructure. Analytics and BI run on Power BI, Tableau, and Azure/AWS/GCP. Process automation is handled by UiPath, Blue Prism, and Celonis. Ansible and Python are in active adoption.
Current projects include network expansion and upgrades, event-driven AIOps automations, DNS system design for the internet core network, process mining platform deployment, automation script development, and capacity planning initiatives.
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