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Optical Network Engineer
Contract: seattle, Washington, US span>
Salary Range: 67.00 - 68.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 371046
End Date: 2026-09-11
Days Left: 19 days, 3 hours left
Pay Range : $66/hr to $68/hr
Day to Day:
- 25% Field Coordination & Tech Guidance: Serving as the remote "eyes and ears" to drive and guide on-the-ground technicians within data center environments (onsite outages, site validations, verifications, installations, racking, powering, and hardware upgrades).
- 25% High/Low-Level Design & Documentation: Translating network needs into technical documentation (drafting HLD/LLD, documenting outage results, and providing technical recommendations based on cost, efficiency, time, and level of effort).
- 20–25% Product Mastery & Solution Design: Learning and deeply understanding specific products/solutions; designing DWDM solutions, determining required tests, and creating option variations for existing or net-new product rollouts.
- 10% Workflows & Execution: Completing cutsheets, planning, auditing the Span, and running required build workflows to execute the deployment.
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10% Meetings & Escalations: Aligning with peers, leadership, project stakeholders, and handling any necessary escalations.
Must Haves:
- Experience Level: junior level as long as they have some hands on dwdm experience – can explain how and why and thought process. Minimum 3+ years of industry experience handling, designing, developing, and operating networks actively handling live customer production traffic.
- Optical DWDM Expertise: Deep technical understanding and hands-on experience with the rollout of large DWDM networks, optical network technologies, and optical planning/modeling tools. Candidates must be able to truly speak DWDM and explain the "how" and "why."
- IP Networking & Router Integration: Strong knowledge of router connectivity, IP networking fundamentals, and extensive experience with IP protocol applications. Must understand cross-layer implications and the interplay between the DWDM layer and the IP router layer.
- Routing Protocols & Platforms: In-depth knowledge of major internet routing protocols (specifically BGP and OSPF) and major router platforms (specifically Cisco 37xx, 49xx, 65xx, 73xx, 76xx platforms including compatible supervisory and line cards).
- Troubleshooting & Technical Protocols: Robust network analysis and troubleshooting skills with significant experience in DWDM, T1/OTN, IPv4 & IPv6, TCP (internals & flow control), HSRP/GLBP, PIMv2, IGMP, LDP, TACACS, IPSEC & VPNs, netflow, DNS, and HTTP.
- Basic Automation (Python): Ability to read, fully understand, and make basic adjustments to existing Python code (building complex automation frameworks from scratch is not required).
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Leadership Principles: Must strongly align with Ownership, Bias for Action, Earn Trust, and Deep Dive.
Plusses:
- Advanced knowledge in writing code/scripts from scratch.
- Candidates coming from recent layoffs within the DWDM space at Oracle or other telecom companies
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable.
Job Requirement
- DWDM
- IP Protocols
- networking
- optical network engineer
- optics
- fiber optics
- IaC
- CI/CD
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Ketki Piprode
- ketki.piprode@collabera.com