Senior Optical Network Engineer
Location: Pearl River, NY — moving to Spring Valley
Schedule: Hybrid — 3 days onsite / 2 days remote, generally Monday–Friday
Interview: Onsite required
This is essentially a hands-on Optical/DWDM Telecom Engineer + Field Engineer role, not a traditional IP Network Architect position.
Absolute priorities
- Optical networking / DWDM — MUST
- Strong fiber-optic / optical transport background
- Optical network design and engineering
- Hands-on field implementation, commissioning and troubleshooting
- Telecom engineering background
- Ability to work at substations/sites and physically connect/test fiber and equipment
- Valid driver's license + personal vehicle
- Willingness to travel and participate in on-call/emergency work
Core Background
- Strong Optical Networking / Telecommunications experience required
- DWDM / optical transport
- Outside-plant fiber
- SONET/TDM
- Ethernet/MPLS
- Microwave/RF
- Utility telecommunications / critical infrastructure
- Cisco ONS 15454
- CTP / EPNM
- SCADA / EMS / RTU / OT environments
Responsibilities
- Design and engineer CCTN DWDM and optical transport networks
- Fiber and equipment design/layout
- Develop SOWs, BOMs, MOPs and project schedules
- Develop wavelength plans and optical power/loss budgets
- Installation, commissioning and network turn-up
- Fiber testing and troubleshooting
- Perform OTDR, BERT and optical power testing
- Coordinate with vendors and field teams
- Support emergency restoration and occasional after-hours/on-call work
- Some field work and travel involved
Key Candidate Profile
This is not a generic Network Engineer role. The hiring manager specifically wants someone with hands-on optical networking/telecom experience, particularly DWDM, fiber, optical transport, field installation/design and testing.
Senior Optical/DWDM Telecom Engineer with hands-on experience designing optical transport networks and physically implementing, commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting fiber/DWDM systems in the field.
Senior Optical Network Engineer in Spring Valley at Donnelly & Moore Corporation
This position is listed as full time and able to be worked remotely. It was posted 3 days ago.