Senior Optical Transport Engineer: Backbone Wave Design

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

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of backbone wavelength services from design through customer handoff, across multiple vendors.

This onsite role is located in Denver, CO or Mt Laurel, NJ and requires hands-on DWDM expertise, ROADM architectures, spectrum planning, and fault isolation. You will collaborate with operations, NOC, and vendor teams to ensure successful service turn-up

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience engineering, provisioning, or supporting DWDM/optical transport networks.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer end-to-end backbone wavelength services across multiple network segments.
• Provision and turn up wavelength services across multi-vendor optical transport networks.
• Validate optical performance and conduct service acceptance testing prior to handoff to customers.

Skills

DWDM networks

ROADM architectures

Wavelength planning

OSNR & dispersion

Multi-vendor provisioning

end-to-end circuit management

Tools

Nokia 1830 PSS/PSD/PSI‑M

Ciena 6500

Waveserver

RLS platforms

Job description

Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, is seeking a Senior Engineer, Long Haul Wave. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of backbone wavelength services from design through customer handoff, across multiple vendors.

This onsite role is located in Denver, CO or Mt Laurel, NJ and requires hands-on DWDM expertise, ROADM architectures, spectrum planning, and fault isolation. You will collaborate with operations, NOC, and vendor teams to ensure successful service turn-up