Telstra Tech Stack
Australia's largest telecom operator scaling security and network modernization
Telstra operates Australia's dominant mobile network and telecom infrastructure serving 10,000+ employees across 15 countries. The hiring profile reveals a sharp pivot toward physical and cyber security: 7 active security roles, a CCTV rollout in motion, and physical security leadership positions open — while traditional engineering headcount remains thin (21 roles). This gap between telecom scale and security hiring velocity suggests internal pressure to harden both digital infrastructure (Azure/AWS/GCP stack) and physical assets, likely driven by critical infrastructure accountability and customer trust concerns.
Tech Stack 79 technologies
What Telstra Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving incident management efficiency
- Tight deadlines
- Managing high-severity technology incidents
- Driving cybersecurity sales
- Operational improvements across customer segments
- Inefficiencies in processes
- Protect millions of users and systems
- Protecting physical assets
- Complex fault investigation
- Operational improvement
▲Active Projects
- Cctv rollout
- Uplift new store formats
- Modernise existing store formats
- Physical security program
- Electronic access control rollout
- Security architecture governance
- Incident management operations power team
- Network cost model development
- Business case preparation for network investments
- Data collection streamlining for product and cable economics
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Software Engineering Lead, Retail Physical Security Lead, Physical Security Lead
