Optical Transmission Engineer

22 hours ago


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Sify Full time US$ 1,50,000 - US$ 2,00,000 per year

Sr Engineer Optical Engineering

Total work experience 10+ years of relevant experience

Job Description -- Role and responsibilities

  • Design, configure, and troubleshoot optical transmission networks, including OTN, DWDM, ROADM and SDH technologies.
  • Configure and optimize optical transmission equipment, including amplifiers, transponders, muxponders, and wavelength switching technologies.
  • Good troubleshooting & performance analysis of optical transmission networks.
  • Perform end-to-end planning and implementation of OTN, DCI devices from multi vendors (Ciena, Nokia, Tejas, Ribbon, Huawei).
  • Perform network planning, link budget analysis, and optical power calculations.
  • Evaluate optical fiber performance, dispersion compensation, and OSNR (Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio) analysis.
  • Perform network testing, troubleshooting, and failure analysis using tools such as OTDR, OSA, and BER testers.
  • Stay updated on emerging optical transport technologies and standards.
  • Knowledge on SDN based optical control and automation frameworks.

Skill Sets

  • Strong understanding of Optical Transport Networks (OTN), Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM), DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) systems.
  • Hands-on experience in optical link budget calculations (power levels, OSNR, attenuation).
  • Experience with network topology design (point-to-point, ring, mesh, hybrid architectures).
  • Design of optical protection & restoration mechanisms (1+1+R line protection/client protection, SNCP protection, GMPLS-based restoration).
  • Understanding of coherent optical transmission.
  • Experience with optical planning tools (Ciena OnePlanner, Planner Plus & Nokia Wave Suite planner).
  • Performance analysis of fiber impairments (CD, PMD, nonlinear effects, OSNR degradation).
  • Path computation & wavelength routing optimization in ROADM networks.
  • Understanding in open optical networking (OpenROADM, OpenConfig, disaggregated optical transport).
  • Traffic engineering & capacity planning based on traffic forecasting models.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for network design & troubleshooting
  • Hands-on experience with optical test & measurement equipments (OTDR, OSA, Ethernet BERT, RFC2544, OTN BER testers).

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