Today TelstraSuper and Aware Super publicly announced they’d signed a non-binding MoU to explore a merger. On paper it’s about scale and member outcomes. On the floor, it’s an uncertain day for everyone who builds and runs the place.
I’ve been at TelstraSuper since November 2018 — Senior DevOps, with a stretch as Manager of DevOps & Application Support on secondment through 2024–2025 while staying hands-on. The work I’m proud of here is the unglamorous kind that compounds: mentoring a junior to full independence, replacing brittle delivery paths with Azure DevOps, and shipping real platforms with recovery you can actually invoke.
That meant Azure Service Fabric for a microservices integration layer and Sitecore on App Service, both as infrastructure-as-code with one-click DR into a secondary region (Key Vault, geo-replicated data). Kubernetes for search/indexing with Solr and NGINX. Azure AI for chatbots and document processing. Health monitoring and automated recovery, spend controls and off-hours scale-down, SonarQube/Sonatype in the path so security wasn’t a slide deck.
None of that answers what happens next for the people who did it. Mergers take months of diligence before anyone knows which roles survive. Until then you keep the lights on, look after each other, and try not to invent futures you can’t verify.