Senior Optical Transport Engineer – Backbone & Automation

Comcast Resume; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 109,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Comcast is seeking a Senior Optical Transport Network Engineer in Colorado to lead the reliability, engineering, and evolution of our national optical backbone. You will design, deploy, and mature backbone services, ensuring scalability and performance across a vast fiber network.

You will join a small, highly technical team performing engineering, operations, and architecture work, owning end-to-end lifecycle of backbone services and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver robust solutions.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of Field Service or Optical Transport Engineering experience.
• Hands-on with Ciena 6500 including Photonic, OTN, Ethernet, Navigator.
• Experience with RLS platforms and Nokia PSS1830 / WS-NOC.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, deploy, and turn up new backbone optical transport services and capacity augmentations.
• Validate network designs, platforms, and software through lab and pre-production testing.
• Partner with architecture, routing, field, and operations teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing network solutions.
• Monitor and troubleshoot network health, perform end-to-end circuit validation, and coordinate in-service maintenance.
• Support firmware and software lifecycle management across the optical network.
• Perform capacity planning, growth modeling, and technical design documentation.
• Coordinate lit circuit design, quoting, ordering, and fiber cross-connects with vendors and third parties.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting backbone network operations.

Skills

TCP/IP networking

Troubleshooting

Technical decision making

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ciena 6500

Navigator

RLS platforms

Nokia PSS1830

WS-NOC

Job description

Comcast is seeking a Senior Optical Transport Network Engineer in Colorado to lead the reliability, engineering, and evolution of our national optical backbone. You will design, deploy, and mature backbone services, ensuring scalability and performance across a vast fiber network.

You will join a small, highly technical team performing engineering, operations, and architecture work, owning end-to-end lifecycle of backbone services and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver robust solutions.