Senior Backbone Optical Transport Architect

Capgemini; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 73,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO & holidays

Medical coverage

Retirement plans

Life insurance

Employee assistance

Other benefits

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering in the United States is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own the end-to-end design, provisioning, and validation of backbone wavelength services across multi-vendor networks. You will be responsible for feasibility, path design, and customer acceptance, spanning metro ingress to national backbone.

Applicants should bring 10+ years of DWDM and optical transport experience, hands-on vendor equipment provisioning, and strong collaboration with NOC, field ops, and

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.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot end-to-end circuits across multiple network segments while isolating faults within complex multi-vendor environments.
• Strong documentation skills and the ability to work directly with customers, operations teams, field personnel, and vendor support organizations throughout the service delivery process.
• 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.
• Perform wavelength assignment, optical spectrum optimization, and selection of transponders, muxponders, and line-side hardware based on service requirements.
• 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.
• Collaborate with field operations, network operations centers (NOC), engineering teams, and vendor support organizations to resolve network issues and escalations.
• Maintain accurate engineering documentation, circuit records, implementation details, service inventories, and as-built network documentation.
• Ensure compliance with operational procedures, engineering standards, and customer acceptance criteria throughout the service delivery lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying automation opportunities, enhancing provisioning workflows, and contributing to operational procedures and MOPs.

Skills

DWDM

ROADM architectures

Spectrum planning

Nokia 1830

PSD/PSI-M

Ciena 6500

Waveserver

OSNR knowledge

Troubleshooting

Vendor coordination

Tools

Nokia 1830 PSS

PSD/PSI-M

Ciena 6500

Waveserver

RLS

Job description

Capgemini Engineering in the United States is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own the end-to-end design, provisioning, and validation of backbone wavelength services across multi-vendor networks. You will be responsible for feasibility, path design, and customer acceptance, spanning metro ingress to national backbone.

Applicants should bring 10+ years of DWDM and optical transport experience, hands-on vendor equipment provisioning, and strong collaboration with NOC, field ops, and