Transport Engineer

TRANSPORT ENGINEER

Department:
Outside Plant

Reports to:

Market Development Engineering Lead

The Transport Engineer is responsible forowning the design, coordination, and delivery of the company’s transport and backhaul connectivity that enables broadband service across the network. This role serves as the critical bridge between network architecture, external transport providers, and internal service delivery teams, ensuring that the underlying transport infrastructure is designed,procured, and delivered in alignment with operational timelines and business objectives.

Unlike roles focused on outside plant construction or IP network configuration, the Transport Engineer is accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle of transport connectivity—from evaluating backhaul options and engineering resilient routes, to managing carrier relationships and coordinating circuit delivery to support new markets, network expansions, and capacity upgrades. The position ensures that transport infrastructure is delivered reliably, cost-effectively, and on schedule to support service activation and ongoing network performance.

• Design and engineer transport and backhaul solutions supporting IP Transit, Ethernet, and wavelength services.
• Develop end-to-end backhaul connectivity between data centers,headends, POPs, and aggregation sites.
• Design transport infrastructure using technologies such as DWDM, ROADM, Carrier Ethernet, and optical transport systems.
• Produce engineering documentation including network diagrams, capacity models, route designs, and technical implementation plans.
• Identify opportunities to improve network resiliency through route diversity, redundancy, and failover strategies.
• Support long-term transport capacity planning and network scalability.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for transport carriers, fiber providers, and infrastructure partners.
• Evaluate and procure transport services including dark fiber, leased wavelengths, Ethernet circuits, and IRUs.
• Review vendor engineering designs, fiber routes, and construction plans to ensure compliance with network standards.
• Manage vendor relationships including pricing negotiations, contract coordination, and service delivery timelines.
• Monitor vendor performance against SLAs and coordinate resolution of delivery delays or service issues.

• Lead transport and backhaul projects from design through service activation.
• Develop project scopes, timelines, and risk assessments for new transport builds, capacity upgrades, and network expansions.
• Coordinate across internal teams including:
  • OSP Engineering
  • Construction
  • Network Engineering
  • NOC / Operations
  • Field Operations
• Manage vendor milestones to ensuretimelycircuit delivery and service turn-up.
• Provide status updates, risk assessments, and progress reports to leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation including SOWs, change orders, and implementation plans.

• Analyze traffic patterns and forecast backhaul capacity needs across the network.
• Recommend upgrades, regrooms, and architecture improvements to maintain performance and reliability.
• Maintainaccuraterecords of:
  • Circuit inventories
  • Fiber routes
  • Backhaul topology
  • Site connectivity within OSS and inventory systems.

There are several competencies required to be successful in this position. The following are some of the most important and definitions of each are included at the end of this job posting:
Project Management, Detail-Orientation, and Business Acumen.

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated ability tooperateindependently in a fast‑moving environment
• 5+ years of experience in network infrastructure planning and operations, preferably within a telecom service provider.
• Strong understanding of Layer 1/2 transport technologies including fiber optics, DWDM, Carrier Ethernet, and MPLS.
• Experience working with carriers and dark fiber providers; contract…