Strategic Capacity Planning Engineer for Telecom Backbone

Employbridge; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FiberLight is seeking a Capacity Planning Engineer to own strategic planning, monitoring, forecasting, and optimization of its national and regional transport, IP/MPLS, Ethernet, and optical infrastructure.

The role ensures sufficient capacity to support customer growth while maximizing asset utilization and minimizing delivery delays. Strong data analysis, dashboard design, and collaboration with Product, Sales Engineering, and Finance are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 8+ years in telecommunications, transport, IP, or strategic network engineering.
• Strong understanding of MPLS, Layer 2 Ethernet, DWDM and ROADM architectures.
• Experience with capacity planning methodologies and forecasting.
• Knowledge of oversubscription models and utilization planning.
• Ability to analyze large datasets and identify utilization trends.
• Experience building engineering dashboards and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain long-term capacity strategy for FiberLight's national and regional network.
• Monitor utilization across IP/MPLS, Ethernet, and optical transport infrastructure.
• Forecast network growth using historical trends, sales data, and strategic initiatives (30 days to 36 months out).
• Establish oversubscription policies and utilization thresholds requiring engineering review or augmentation.
• Design real-time dashboards and automated reporting for backbone, spectrum, port, circuit, and fiber utilization.
• Develop engineering policies and standards governing capacity planning, augmentation triggers, and equipment lifecycle.
• Identify backbone, router, switch, optical, and fiber augmentation requirements, and build supporting business cases.
• Partner with Product Management, Sales Engineering, Construction, Procurement, and Finance on capacity validation and network expansion.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for network scalability and support M&A/network integration planning.
• Develop KPIs measuring network health and utilization, and drive continuous improvement in planning methodology.

Skills

MPLS networking

Layer 2 Ethernet

DWDM optical transport

ROADM architectures

Carrier Ethernet

Data analysis

Engineering dashboards

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

NetBrain

Netcracker

GIS

SolarWinds

Python

Power BI

SQL

Job description

FiberLight is seeking a Capacity Planning Engineer to own strategic planning, monitoring, forecasting, and optimization of its national and regional transport, IP/MPLS, Ethernet, and optical infrastructure.

The role ensures sufficient capacity to support customer growth while maximizing asset utilization and minimizing delivery delays. Strong data analysis, dashboard design, and collaboration with Product, Sales Engineering, and Finance are essential.