Senior Capacity Planner

Overview

Senior Capacity Planner role at Telstra leading the planning of capacity and deployment of specific infrastructure platforms, with technical ownership of the TrueCall platform spanning development, enhancement and production reliability.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end development, enhancement, maintenance and L2/L3 support of the TrueCall platform.
• Develop and maintain solutions using Python, Shell, Perl and SQL.
• Build and integrate 5G and NB-IoT data-processing capabilities into existing platform workflows.
• Develop automation for operational activities, data validation, monitoring and Network Element updates.
• Support production deployments, upgrades, incident resolution and post-deployment validation.
• Develop and enhance Ansible playbooks to automate upgrades and improve deployment consistency.
• Monitor call-quality metrics, Network Element data and operational KPIs to proactively identify issues.
• Troubleshoot complex application, data-flow and upstream/downstream integration issues.
• Modernise legacy applications and scripts to improve performance, reliability, scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with development, operations and business teams as a key technical point of contact.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of relevant Mobile RAN / telecom engineering experience, with strong exposure to network performance and optimisation.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or an equivalent tertiary engineering qualification.
• Strong hands-on programming and scripting experience across Python, Shell, Perl and SQL.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical production applications/platforms.
• Good understanding of 4G/5G RAN, IoT/NB-IoT, network architecture and interfaces.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability across complex application, network and data issues.
• Experience with automation, data analytics and platform modernisation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across technical, operational and business teams.

Nice to have

• Exposure to AI-assisted development, AI/ML, AIOps, DevOps/CI/CD and network automation.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Employment type: Permanent.
• Telstra works flexibly; flexibility arrangements are discussed with candidates.
• Background check required as part of the hiring process.
• Closing date: 29 Oct 2026, 11:59pm.