Senior Optical Network Engineer

Location: New York, NY
Position Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Optical Network Engineer to support its Corporate Communications Transmission Network (CCTN), a mission-critical telecommunications infrastructure serving electric, gas, steam, and corporate operations across service territories.

The engineer will design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot optical transport and telecommunications networks supporting critical utility operations, including SCADA, energy management systems, feeder relay protection, operational technology (OT), voice communications, cybersecurity, and corporate data connectivity.

This role requires hands‑on experience with DWDM, fiber‑optic transport, network commissioning, telecommunications testing, and engineering documentation. The engineer will also coordinate with vendors, contractors, and internal teams to support network upgrades, service migrations, and emergency restoration activities.

• Design and engineer optical transport networks, including DWDM, outside plant fiber‑optic cable, microwave transport, and DC power infrastructure.

• Develop engineering plans, scopes of work, bills of materials, technical specifications, and project schedules.

• Design and maintain telecommunications infrastructure supporting SCADA, EMS, RTUs, feeder relay protection, OT systems, and corporate networks.

• Develop Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for installations, migrations, maintenance, testing, and emergency restoration.

• Perform equipment commissioning, network turn‑up, acceptance testing, troubleshooting, and service restoration.

• Conduct Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) and physical‑ and transport‑layer validation across DWDM, SONET, TDM, MPLS, Ethernet, microwave, and Fibre Channel systems.

• Use OTDRs, optical power meters, light sources, optical spectrum analyzers, and fiber‑inspection equipment to test and troubleshoot fiber‑optic systems.

• Install, inspect, clean, test, label, and document fiber‑optic cabling and connections.

• Maintain DWDM network designs, wavelength plans, optical power and loss budgets, equipment configurations, and capacity expansion plans.

• Operate and troubleshoot optical network elements, including transponders, muxponders, amplifiers, ROADMs, multiplexers, and demultiplexers.

• Support microwave radio engineering, including path analysis, equipment deployment, performance verification, and troubleshooting.

• Coordinate telecommunications vendors and contractors and review installation quality and as‑built documentation.

• Maintain engineering standards, design templates, configuration standards, and technical documentation.

• Travel to company facilities and project sites throughout Con Edison and Orange & Rockland service territories.

• Support off‑hours maintenance, network cutovers, emergency response, and critical service restoration as required.

• Strong experience designing, deploying, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting DWDM optical transport networks
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• Strong understanding of fiber‑optic communications, optical transmission theory, and optical power and loss budgets.

• Knowledge of SONET, TDM, Ethernet, MPLS, and DWDM transport technologies.

• Hands‑on experience with optical equipment commissioning, acceptance testing, network performance validation, and fault isolation.

• Experience using optical testing equipment, including OTDRs, optical power meters, and optical spectrum analyzers.

• Ability to develop engineering drawings, scopes of work, bills of materials, test plans, MOPs, and as‑built documentation.

• Understanding of cybersecurity principles for telecommunications and critical infrastructure networks.

• Familiarity with Cisco ONS 15454…