Hyperscaler DC Network Engineer - Plano

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Ericsson Inc. does not sponsor U.S work authorizations for this job position including U.S. immigration filings for initial and/or change of employer paperwork for H-1’s, H-1B1’s, E-3’s, O-1’s, and TN’s. Ericsson also does not hire F-1’s working on CPT or EAD for this position.

In this role, you will work directly with customers, field technicians, delivery teams, and engineering stakeholders across data centers, laboratories, and operational environments. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers deploy and operate reliable, high-performance network and optical transport infrastructure.

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced infrastructure engineer who combines hands‑on deployment expertise with strong operational discipline, customer communication, and the ability to lead complex technical work in mission‑critical environments.

• Support physical deployment activities in customer data centers, including rack installation, fiber deployment, switch and router installation, testing, commissioning, upgrades, migrations, and remediation.
• Support hyperscale and colocation environments of large-scale data center operators.
• Install, troubleshoot, and commission high‑capacity network, server, and optical transport equipment in live or controlled data center environments.
• Support Data Center Interconnect deployments connecting geographically separated data centers using high‑speed optical transport.
• Work with optical line systems and related components, including OLS, ROADM, transponders, MUX/DEMUX, EDFAs, and associated cabling and optics.
• Develop, review, and maintain detailed Methods of Procedure for installations, upgrades, migrations, break/fix activities, and remediation.
• Perform scenario planning, risk analysis, pre‑checks, post‑checks, and rollback planning for complex operational changes and customer escalations.
• Provide Tier 3 technical escalation support to field technicians and delivery teams for complex network, hardware, fiber, and transport issues.
• Review Bills of Materials, equipment lists, designs, and implementation plans for technical accuracy, completeness, and alignment with customer requirements.
• Diagnose faults using appropriate optical and network test equipment; document findings, corrective actions, and commissioning results.
• Identify operational gaps and improvement opportunities, recommending practical solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, service quality, and customer outcomes.

• Recent hands‑on physical deployment experience in data center networking, optical transport, or mission‑critical infrastructure;
• Demonstrated experience with rack installation, fiber deployment, switch/router installation, testing, and commissioning in data centers.
• Experience supporting hyperscale, colocation, or similarly large‑scale and mission‑critical data center environments.
• Practical knowledge of Data Center Interconnect architecture and high‑speed optical transport.
• Experience with modular chassis platforms from one or more of the following vendors, or comparable systems:
  Cisco 8000 Series, Arista 7800 Series, and Juniper PTX Series.
• Experience installing or supporting data center computing and server platforms from HPE, Dell, Supermicro, NVIDIA DGX, or comparable manufacturers.
• Working knowledge of OLS, ROADM, transponders, MUX/DEMUX, EDFAs, and associated optical transport technologies.
• Hands‑on experience with optical and fiber test equipment, including Optical Power Meter, Light Source, Fiber Microscope, VFL, OLTS, OTDR, and BERT Tester.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the physical layer, fiber, network hardware, and optical transport domains.
• Proven ability to lead or author Methods of…