Network Engineer - Optical Deployment

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and support optical production networks spanning terrestrial long-haul, regional metro, and subsea systems across EMEA.
• Deliver optical and IP capacity and collaborate with partners to improve deployment velocity and quality.
• Coordinate cross-regional delivery, create DWDM engineering design packages, and develop implementation plans.
• Guide deployment activities; evaluate vendor hardware and software; establish optical deployment standards.
• Review vendor and subcontractor acceptance documents; advise provisioning engineers on faulty or out-of-service circuits.
• Plan and perform maintenance, repairs, and upgrades; coordinate introduction of new optical technologies with engineering, logistics, vendors, and fibre providers.
• Contribute to documentation, automation, and process improvements. Occasional pre-planned travel is expected.

Minimum qualifications

• Hands-on optical network deployment experience.
• Experience with optical network design, installation, and maintenance in service provider or enterprise networks.
• Experience delivering end-to-end capacity connecting optical and IP infrastructure.
• Knowledge of optical theory, transport technologies, and optical transport system operations.
• Optical testing and troubleshooting experience using C-OTDR, OTDR, OSA, BERT, and optical power meters.
• Experience creating rack elevations and planned, installation, or as-built documentation.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience coordinating tasks and communicating with carriers remotely; analyzing situations and using tools to resolve technical issues.
• Effective time management and organization; experience working in global teams.
• Experience integrating AI tools to improve workflows and applying responsible AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality reviews.
• Ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and keeping current with emerging AI technologies.

Compensation

• The posting describes compensation as base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary, without specifying which cadence or an amount.
• Bonus, equity, or sales incentives may be separate from base compensation; benefits are also offered.

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