Network Connectivity Engineer (Fiber Optic Layout)

What they’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or 8 years of equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in and designing data center connectivity.
• Experience with multimode fiber, singlemode fiber, copper, and other low-voltage telecommunication systems.
• Familiarity with structured cabling and both active and passive cabling elements.
• Ability to travel approximately 40%.
• RCDD (Registered Communications Distribution Designer) certification.
• Experience performing budget loss, insertion loss, and return loss calculations for structured cable systems.
• Experience deploying network elements such as routing switches, aggregation switches, optical transceivers, and DWDM.
• Ability to interpret fiber test results.
• Experience with network connectivity testing (singlemode duplex, multimode duplex, MPO8, MPO12, MPO16, AOC, DAC, and copper) and troubleshooting using OTDR, light meters, VFLs, loopbacks, and BERT across vendors.
• Experience building and designing scalable fiber and connectivity plants for large-scale data centers across Ethernet, InfiniBand, and RoCE networks.
• Experience designing and deploying connectivity for high-speed / high-bandwidth HPC and ML applications.
• Experience troubleshooting optical transceivers, network switches, fiber, and other Layer 1 hardware.
• Knowledge of basic programming languages such as Python and SQL.

Certifications & checks

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Skills mentioned

Fiber testing (OLTS / OTDR) · Component & hardware replacement · Network switch configuration · Cost control · Test documentation · Material handling