End-to-End Backbone Optical Transport Engineer

Capgemini; Bridgewater (MA); On-site; USD 104,400 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own end-to-end backbone wavelength services from feasibility through customer acceptance. You will design optical paths, perform spectrum planning, and select transponders, muxponders, and line-side hardware to meet service requirements.

You will provision and validate services across multi-vendor networks, collaborating with NOC and field teams to resolve issues and ensure compliant handoffs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience engineering, provisioning, or supporting DWDM and optical transport networks in a carrier or large-scale service provider environment.
• Strong understanding of optical transport technologies, including DWDM, ROADM architectures, wavelength planning, optical amplification, regeneration, OSNR, dispersion, and optical power budgets.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and troubleshooting services on optical transport equipment from at least one major vendor, with the ability to work across multiple vendor platforms.
• Direct experience with Nokia 1830 PSS, PSD, PSI-M, and related optical transport platforms.
• Direct experience with Ciena 6500, Waveserver, and RLS optical platforms.
• Experience supporting long haul or backbone optical transport networks.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer end-to-end backbone wavelength services, including feasibility studies, route selection, optical path design, reach validation, and spectrum planning.
• Provision and turn up wavelength services across multi-vendor optical transport networks, including Nokia and Ciena platforms.
• Configure, integrate, and maintain optical network services while ensuring consistency across vendor boundaries and transport technologies.
• Validate optical performance through power verification, performance testing, error-free burn-in, and service acceptance testing prior to customer handoff.
• Troubleshoot complex network, optical, and service-layer issues, including OSNR, dispersion, span loss, framing errors, timing issues, and alarm conditions.

Skills

DWDM

ROADM

Optical transport

OSNR

Troubleshooting

Vendor support

Tools

Nokia 1830 PSS

Ciena 6500

Waveserver

RLS

PSI-M

Job description

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own end-to-end backbone wavelength services from feasibility through customer acceptance. You will design optical paths, perform spectrum planning, and select transponders, muxponders, and line-side hardware to meet service requirements.

You will provision and validate services across multi-vendor networks, collaborating with NOC and field teams to resolve issues and ensure compliant handoffs.