Network Engineer, Associate (Early in Career)

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanitydriving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Rewarding experience. Meaningful outcomes.

Making a difference in people's lives through design and implementation of leading network technologies. That's what motivates us.

Embrace diversity. Celebrate inclusion. Champion ideas. From across the table to around the world, our path to innovation comes from our friendly environment and outstanding people. That's the Ciena network.

Responsibilities

This position is a technical role to lead the delivery of network solution, providing post-sales support for delivery, Solution Engineering services like Solution Design, Solution Acceptance, Remote Deployment support and Network Reconfiguration/Migration.

Will interfaces with the following functional groups on a day-to-day basis; Systems Engineers (SE), Service Project Managers (SPM), Technical Support, Field Service Engineers and Customer Service Avocate.

Basic theoretical and/or practical knowledge of L0/L1 optical/transmission and/or Layer2-3 (IP protocols) and/or scripting/DevOps skills

General Activities

• Support service partners engineers during project deployment
• Reviews the Technical Deployment Package details with both Internal and External Resources to ensure that the are understood by all members of the Deployment Team
• Serves an escalation point for issues/problems related to the Technical Deployment Package contents. Works with the Pre-Sales, Customer, and Internal Ciena Groups to resolve any design or product related issues and translates resolutions to the field
• Responsible for archiving the As-Built Documentation Sets for future network upgrade support

Collaboration with stakeholders

• Participates on Customer kick-off calls and provides support to the Deployment Project Managers
• Provide technical guidance to the Presales Engineers to ensure that the Network Design meets both Customer and Serviceability requirements

Areas of impact (Basic theoretical and/or practical knowledge/expertise required)

• Layer 0/1 (ie, SDH, DWDM, ROADM, Control Plane, etc) Ciena or other vendor product knowledge,
• Layer 2-3 knowledge, and/or
• Scripting/DevOps skills (ie, Phyton, JAVA, Ansible, etc)

Experience

• B.S. Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a related field of discipline
• Mandatory not more than 5 years of experience
• Ability to work directly with various cross-functional groups to resolve issues and establish best practices
• Good Customer Service interaction skills
• Excellent English language written and verbal communications skills
• Expert knowledge of MS Office applications (Visio, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
• Ability to handle travel (approx. 25%)
• Ability to work at night on maintenance windows (25%)
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to review and analyse project information quickly and accurately
• Ability to take a conceptual design and develop a process to make it a reality
• Communications/technology focused career goals

Ciena is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.