Field Telecom Engineer: DWDM & Optical Network Specialist

GCS Recruitment; Delaware City (DE); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Field Engineer to support the installation, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of telecommunications and network infrastructure. The role involves travel to central offices, data centers, and customer sites to install and service DWDM, optical transport, SONET, OTN, Ethernet, and IP transport equipment.

The ideal candidate will perform circuit turn-ups, optical testing, fiber certification, and fault isolation while coordinating with customers

Qualifications

• Hands-on field engineer with experience installing and maintaining telecom networks.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites, data centers, and central offices.
• Familiarity with DWDM, optical transport, SONET, OTN, Ethernet, and IP transport.
• Strong fault isolation and problem-solving skills in live networks.

Responsibilities

• Travel to customer sites, central offices, data centers, and network facilities to perform field engineering activities.
• Install, configure, provision, test, and maintain DWDM and optical transport equipment.
• Perform equipment installation, hardware replacement, line card swaps, and network upgrades.
• Support the deployment and maintenance of SONET, OTN, Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet, and IP transport services.
• Perform circuit turn-ups, service activations, acceptance testing, and circuit grooming.
• Conduct optical testing using OTDRs, power meters, fiber scopes, BERT/PRBS testers, and transport test equipment.
• Perform fiber inspection, certification, characterization, and optical fault isolation.
• Troubleshoot problems involving fiber, optical signals, network hardware, transport equipment, and Layer 1 connectivity.
• Identify and isolate network faults and work with Network Operations and Engineering teams to restore services.
• Support network restoration and emergency outage activities when required.
• Install and support customer premise equipment (CPE) and enterprise network services.
• Work with transport equipment from vendors such as Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, Fujitsu, Cisco, Ribbon, Adtran, Juniper, and Alcatel-Lucent.
• Perform preventative maintenance and equipment inspections.
• Verify equipment, cabling, fiber connections, labeling, power, and network connectivity during installations.
• Document field activities, test results, equipment changes, circuit information, and restoration activities.
• Maintain accurate inventory, maintenance records, and trouble-ticket updates.
• Coordinate with customers, contractors, vendors, Network Operations, and engineering teams to complete field assignments.
• Follow site access, safety, security, change-management, and telecommunications installation procedures.

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Field Engineer to support the installation, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of telecommunications and network infrastructure. The role involves travel to central offices, data centers, and customer sites to install and service DWDM, optical transport, SONET, OTN, Ethernet, and IP transport equipment.

The ideal candidate will perform circuit turn-ups, optical testing, fiber certification, and fault isolation while coordinating with customers