Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave
Duration: 6+ months
The Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave owns the complete lifecycle of backbone wavelength services, from feasibility analysis and end-to-end optical design through provisioning, validation, customer turn-up, and final service acceptance. Operating within a single-owner delivery model, this role is accountable for delivering production-ready optical circuits across metro ingress, the national backbone, and metro egress while ensuring service quality, network stability, and customer satisfaction.
Requirements:
10+ years of hands-on experience with Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport engineering in a carrier or large-scale service provider environment. Expertise in optical transport engineering, including Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) architectures, wavelength planning, Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR), optical amplification, regeneration, dispersion, and optical power budgets. Hands-on experience provisioning and troubleshooting multi-vendor optical transport platforms.
Responsibilities:
Design end-to-end backbone wavelength services, including feasibility analysis, route selection, spectrum engineering, wavelength assignment, regeneration planning, optical reach validation, and hardware selection. Provision, configure, and validate wavelength services across Nokia and Ciena optical transport platforms while maintaining accurate implementation records and circuit documentation. Perform end-to-end testing, optical validation, customer acceptance, and production turn-up, including optical power verification, performance testing, and service quality validation. Troubleshoot complex optical transport issues across metro, backbone, and vendor boundaries, coordinating with field operations, network operations, and vendor technical support as needed. Maintain complete engineering documentation, as-built records, circuit labeling, validation results, and implementation artifacts throughout the service lifecycle. Improve delivery efficiency by contributing to automation initiatives, Methods of Procedure (MOPs), implementation standards, and operational documentation.
