Transport Lab Engineer

Location: Richardson, TX Description: Our client is currently seeking a Transport Lab Engineer in Richardson, TX

This job will have the following responsibilities:

• As a member of the Systems and Maintenance Engineering Lab Governance Team, you'll be responsible for creating and executing support strategies for S&ME Lab resources. Primary responsibilities will include:
  
  Implement lab test bed setup based on requirements from IT, Planning, and Maintenance Engineering teams
  
  Insuring lab test bed setup is complete prior to test or development efforts
  
  Scheduling and managing availability of lab resources
  
  Support and triage for test bed issues, including vendor engagement/escalation
  
  Maintenance of lab resources to insure production-like availability
  
  Management of test bed inventories
  
  Hands-on equipment support (equipment installation, fiber maintenance, card add/pulls)
  
  

Qualifications & Requirements:

• You will have knowledge and skills creating, managing, and troubleshooting optical transport layer 1-3 networks and willingness to collaborate across multiple teams in order to create and maintain a robust environment to support the dynamic demands of test and development efforts supporting next-gen networks.
  
  You'll need to have:
  
  Experience with SONET/DWDM/ROADM/OTN/MPLS/Pseudowire and other transport methods
  
  Demonstrated experience troubleshooting/resolving network issues across Layer 1- 3 transport platforms
  
  Technical knowledge of IP core and transport networks and associated encapsulation and protocols such as BGP, OSPF, L2 Tunneling, pseudowire, IS-IS, BFD
  
  Knowledge of Telecommunications/Service Provider architecture and design
  
  Excellent collaboration skills and strong written and verbal communication skills
  
  Experience with best practices for equipment install, activation, turn-up, and network integration
  
  Even better if you have:
  
  Carrier Ethernet / MEF Certifications
  
  Experience working with Cisco or Ciena optical transport systems (eg. photonic switches, Cisco NCS platforms, Ciena 6500 platforms, etc)
  
  Experience with lab operational procedures/practices
  
  Scripting experience (Python, Perl, JavaScript, Shell, etc)

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