KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate will be able to:
- Coordinate engineering initiatives with client’s customers & wireline operations team members.
- Design, engineer, and oversee telecommunication engineering & construction projects to ensure successful compliance of specifications, timelines and budget requirements.
- Design DWDM optical transport network system, perform design reviews, and install and maintain operational support systems for optical network elements.
- Understand the study of power and OSNR evolution and impact of spectral management
- Provide technical expertise and support to various internal departments
- Knowledge of microwave antenna systems as well as Microwave frequency coordination – via MICS/FCSA;
- Prepare Request for Proposals/Quotes (RFP/RFQ) to vendors and contracted services
- Establish & manage project budgets, schedules, produce technical documentation & be capable of overseeing EF&I Projects;
- Evaluate and manage the implementation of new technologies and processes while participating in selection of service and equipment vendors;
- Specify and procure hardware as part of project design
- Work with hardware and software of various optical platforms from pre-deployment certification to installation acceptance.
- Write detailed Methods of Procedure (MoPs) for implementation and maintenance activity overseeing the compliance of such.
- Analyze the operation performance of the network elements and compare to expected results. Publish failure analysis and make sparing recommendations.
- Develop & manage processes, methodologies & optimization requirements for optical transport & Ethernet/IP networks.
- Develop automation tools for testing, configuration, auditing and monitoring of fault and performance of optical network elements.
- Investigate long haul optical transmission, including polarization multiplexed advanced modulation formats and coherent systems
- Quantitative study of system performance under stressed conditions including nonlinearities, CD and PMD, power and polarization transients
- Optical performance analysis for various fiber types, dispersion maps, neighboring channel signal formats including comparison to simulations
- Assist in the validation of distributed, link-level optical control systems enabling automated optimization of system performance in dynamic environments.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
The qualified candidate must have:
- Minimum 5 years experience in transport network planning & engineering
- Minimum 5 years experience in design, implementation and optimization of microwave networks
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering - telecommunications or equivalent
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of wireless communication components such as antennas, filters, propagation, interference and spectrum management
- Knowledge of L3/L2 Ethernet AND Ethernet Backhaul
- Knowledge of DS1, DS3 and OC3 hierarchy and SDM protocols
- Expertise in Project management
- Ability to partner/work together with contractors, vendors and peers (locally and remotely)
- Ability to travel when required
- IP data networking skills
- Innovative, motivated self-starter
- Capacity to make important decisions and assume responsibilities
- Attitude focused on team success
- Experience and desire to do scripting/programming with a broad understanding of optical theory and transport technologies and the operation of optical transport DWDM systems
- Familiarity with TL1, SNMP and/or Element Management Systems and solid optical troubleshooting skills using OTDR, OSA, BERT and optical power meters
- Knowledge of DWDM transmission systems - design and hands-on testing including EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, ROADMs and transponders
- Extensive experience with high-speed optical and electrical test and measurement equipment control and data acquisition
- Ability to lead projects requiring a careful, meticulous approach including documentation and presentation of methods and results
PREFERRED TECHNICAL AND VENDOR BACKGROUND (SOME BUT NOT ALL REQUIRED):
- ECI 9608,9310
- Accedian MetroNODE/MetroNID/EtherNID family
- SONET OCX
- Long Haul transport
- Facility Power Engineering
- Ethernet Transport / Ethernet over SONET / Packet Transport
- Wavelength & DWDM services
- Force 10/Turin Traverse 2000,TE206,TE100
- Nortel Transport products
- Calix C7,
- Eastern Research DNX-11 3/1/0 DACS
- Adtran products
- Genband C-15 Softswitch
- AFC UMC 1000
- Tellabs 5310 Titan 1/0
- Marconi, TDI, Argus -48VDC Power System
- Telco Systems Products
- Marconi, TDI Inverters
PREFERRED SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE:
- Microsoft Office Products
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Project
- Map Info
- Cadtel
- Cisco IOS
- TL1