Job description

Optical Engineer

Job Brief:

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

Key Responsiblities:

• Professional with Cisco Optical skills demonstrating the knowledge required to design, provision, operate and perform basic troubleshooting on Cisco & other vendor product family.


• Demonstrates significant and specialized knowledge of fiber optic principles and DWDM transmission.


• Proficient in integration, testing, provisioning, commissioning & maintenance of fiber optics transmission products & applications.


• Understand Cisco Transport Planner to validate the design of the DWDM optical network and maintenance.


• Powering and testing the shelves, validating the design for NCS2000 platform.


• Deluge Knowledge of Optical Networking products understanding and their maintenance.


• Perform maintenance work on the systems, and knowing how to troubleshoot systems in order to isolate and replace component failures.


• Audit and optimization of the network components performance periodically.


• Solve problems faster, improve operational efficiency, and reduce risk of downtime.


• Extensive skills on Different Tools For Troubleshooting such as Power Meters, Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) & CD/PMD analyzer, BERT to test fiber and verify specifications and throughput.


• Handling escalation cases & extensive hardware troubleshooting on Cisco NCS 2000 Platform, Multi-degree nodes with CCOFS features, Photonics nodes with TNCS-O cards, ROADM nodes-CCFOS, 20-SMR-FS, Amplifiers (RAMAN, EDRA or EDFA),


• Responsible for providing 24x7 optical networking support in production environment.


• Maintaining the network stability and KPI high by reducing the service affecting/degrading alarms & Trouble Ticket Management.


• Understanding NCS 2000 web based management tool - Cisco Transport Controller & Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager


• Mentor L1 & L2 groups to increase the productivity, assuring them the support & interactions in their day-to-day technical activities.


• Periodic network infrastructure preventive maintenance and implementation of best practices on the  network nodes for enhancing the network performance.


• Validate network design, troubleshooting, maintaining, and defining processes & procedures for the enhancement of operations and optimization of network infrastructure.


• Documenting and imparting the necessary technical training among the FO & BO functional teams.


• Meet targets, manage and monitor KPI’s / KQI’s– ensuring optimum performance and achievement of operational objectives.

Nationality: any

Minimum Qualification: Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Work Experience: 5 Years

Salary: 15,000 to 18,000 SAR

This job is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Skills

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Nationality: Any
Gender: Any