Senior Optical Transport Engineer: Backbone DWDM & Turn-Up

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own the complete lifecycle of backbone wavelength services, from design to customer acceptance. You will work across metro ingress, national backbone, and metro egress, delivering end-to-end solutions in a multi-vendor environment.

The role requires 10+ years in DWDM/optical transport with hands-on experience on Nokia and Ciena platforms, strong design and troubleshooting skills, and collaboration with operations and vendor

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience engineering, provisioning, or supporting DWDM and optical transport networks.
• 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, across multiple platforms.

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 networks, including Nokia and Ciena platforms.
• Configure, integrate, and maintain optical network services across vendor boundaries and transport technologies.
• Validate optical performance through power verification, testing, burn-in, and service acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot complex network, optical, and service-layer issues, including OSNR, dispersion, span loss, framing errors, timing issues, and alarms.
• Collaborate with NOC, field operations, engineering teams, and vendor support to resolve issues and escalations.

Skills

DWDM

ROADM architectures

Optical transport

Nokia 1830 PSS/PSD/PSI-M

Ciena 6500/Waveserver/RLS

OSNR/dispersion/power budgets

Troubleshooting multi-vendor networks

Customer collaboration

End-to-end circuit design

Spectrum planning

Tools

Nokia/Ciena platforms

Job description

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave to own the complete lifecycle of backbone wavelength services, from design to customer acceptance. You will work across metro ingress, national backbone, and metro egress, delivering end-to-end solutions in a multi-vendor environment.

The role requires 10+ years in DWDM/optical transport with hands-on experience on Nokia and Ciena platforms, strong design and troubleshooting skills, and collaboration with operations and vendor