Optical Network Planning Engineer

By Light Professional IT Services; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

By Light Professional IT Services LLC seeks an Optical Network Technology Planning Engineer to join the DISA team at Ft Meade, MD. You will develop deployment and wavelength plans for the DoD’s global optical transport network, translating service requirements into hardware configurations and routing plans for operations.

Responsibilities include interfacing with DISA operations and vendors, performing in-depth network analysis, and supporting hardware and service rollout using industry

Qualifications

• 2+ years in planning transport networks (DWDM/OTN).
• Familiar with ITU-T, OIF and IETF standards.
• Active Secret clearance or higher, or willingness to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Develop deployment plans and wavelength plans for DISA networks.
• Assess service requirements and translate into hardware deployment and routing plans.
• Interface with DISA operations and vendors during implementation.
• Support DoD modernization efforts and hardware/service transitions.
• Utilize planning tools (One Planner, Transport Planner, MCP/Navigator).

Skills

Optical Networking

Transport planning

DWDM

L1/L2 switching

QPSK / QAM

Network management tools

ITU-T/OIF/IETF standards

Clearance knowledge

Tools

One Planner

Transport Planner

Ciena MCP/Navigator

Blue Planet

Cisco Optical Network Planner

Job description

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

By Light Professional IT Services is seeking an Optical Network Technology Planning Engineer to join our DISA team at Ft Meade, MD. This is an exciting key position to a major Department of Defense initiative. The candidate will work all aspects of optical network equipment planning for the DOD’s global optical transport network. The candidate will work to develop hardware (Major Bill of Material) deployment plans including system configurations, routing of the 10/100/400G circuits over the network, providing plans to operations of the circuits in “Wavelength Plan format” to meet service requirements. The candidate will support the DISA operations during the implementation of the hardware and services.

• Based on the direction from government assess the service requirements and strategic technology requirements to develop deployment plans that include hardware requirements, transition plans and capturing the service routing in Wavelength Plan for implementation.
• Provide in-depth engineering analysis, deployment, and transition plans of transport level equipment in support of government strategic modernization efforts.
• Interface with DISA operations and implementation vendors in the implementation of developed deployment and Wavelength Plans.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in the planning of transport technologies such as Optical Transport System (a.k.a. DWDM), OTN/Packet switching, L1/L2 switches, legacy SONET/SDH technologies.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical or related field.
• Familiarity with ITU-T, OIF and IETF standards. Knowledge of transport protocols such as ITU-T G.709, Layer 1/Layer 2 protocols, and Ethernet.
• Prior experience with a major Optical Manufacturer equipment a plus Ciena, Cisco, Infinera or Nokia
• Familiarity with QPSK, QAM is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of network management and experience with wave length planning tools such as One Planner, Transport Planner, Ciena MCP/Navigator, Blue Planet, or Cisco Optical Network Planner.
• DoD 8570-01-M IAT Level II or higher to include one of the following CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, Security+, GSEC, SSCP, or higher level cert.
• Active Secret Clearance