Job#: 3028480 Job Description: Position: Optical Network Operations EngineerLocation: Remote6-12 Month Contract Candidate will perform moves/adds/changes on the Business optical network and needs hands on practical experience with configuring one or more of Nokia PSS, CISCO NCS2015, Ciena 6500 platforms. Wave builds at 10/100/400G.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO SPECTRUM ENTERPRISERequired Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Optical Transport Deployment
- Experience with an optical network provider, or vendor acting in an operations or engineering role. Experience in building optical networking infrastructure and/or optical networking equipment/systems.
- 3+ years of experience with the operation, administration, and maintenance of Optical transport networks. Primary equipment includes Nokia PSS, CISCO NCS2015, Ciena 6500
- Design, build, configure, and manage the installation/deployment of the Spectrum Enterprise optical network including infrastructure, hardware setup, commissioning, troubleshooting, and decommissioning old gear as we're in a constant upgrade cycle
- Ability to receive complex work packages/network designs via workflow tool, interpret the request, execute the tasks to include: complete accurate impact statements and build Change Requests that include a detailed MOP
- Experience with routing protocols, optical transport systems, provisioning and troubleshoot above noted equipment with various common service configurations.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, a related field or equivalent experience.
- Technical Skills: strong familiarity with OTN, SONET, DWDM
- Abilities: Ability to self-manage multiple tasks simultaneously across various job assignments; maintain accurate ticket status, work in a fast-paced environment, under pressure, with strict deadlines; execute above work on live customer circuits with skillset to avoid workman caused outages; work in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed to support trouble tickets and break/fix as we support at a Tier 4 level.
Preferred Qualifications
- CCNP along with OCP, NONC or other industry-specific optical certifications
- Strong knowledge of one or more: Nokia PSS, CISCO NCS2015, Ciena 6500
- Optical migrations experience
Keywords:
- Optical Network Implementation
- Optical Network Deployment, Commissioning, Maintenance, Operations
- Optical Transport Systems (OTN), G.709
- DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing), Flex Grid
- Fiber Optic Networks/Communication
- Wave turn-up, OTU, ODU, 10G, 100G, 200G etc
- Network Performance Optimization
- MOP (Method of Procedure) Writing
- OTN, SONET/SDH, DWDM, CWDM
- Certs: OCP, NONC, OTT, ONP, CONA/CONE, (IP certs in addition is good, like CCNA/P)
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