Technical Lead, Optical Network Engineering

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Technical Lead, Optical Network Engineering
Job Level
PT1
Reporting to
Associate Senior Manager
Function
O and E : Engineering
Primary job location
Bangalore
Role purpose
At Colt, we are changing the perception of our business and industry sector. As part of this transformation, we are growing new services and teams to facilitate and drive the business to the next level.
Colt provides world:classnetwork and communications services to information:intensive businesses across Europe, Asia, and North America.
With local market understanding and global reach : Colt is big enough to deliver and small enough to care.
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To work on designing non:standard solutions for our customers in Europe and ensuring signoffs from operations on the design. Also, support operations during the implementation of the design.
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End:to:end ownership of the project, which includes Solution Design, testing, sign:offs, and implementation.
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Testing predominantly on Optical services as per project requirements.
Key accountabilities:
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Translates customer requirements into functional design aligned withColt 's value propositions.
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Acts as a single point of contact for Solutions Architect / Sales on projects involving multi:domain components.
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Pre:sales Solution Design on Optical colt products and technologies.
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Develops innovative and cost:effective solutions to address a variety of business problems across own area/projects
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Post:sales, Detailed designs, and implementation support to service delivery on above colt products and technologies
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Leading complex multi:technology projects on Managed Networking and other domains.
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Design of customer optical network (new and existing) for all colt countries. Customer network might include existing infrastructure spanning across multiple technologies (SDH, MSP, OTN/FC/CWDM/DWDM, etc) or multiple vendors makingthis role more interesting and challenging.
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Leading Proof of Concept testing on multi:technology projects where Optical is the predominant part of the solution.
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Supporting help desk for Solution Architects in Europe for technical queries
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Supporting new feature development by being the SPOC for Optical for Strategy and Architecture team and also for the Infrastructure Design and Deployment team.
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Has a logical/methodical approach to fault finding, and ensures first:time:right solution.
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Acclaimed specialist in own area with depth and breadth of knowledge.
Essential requirements (skills, experience, qualifications):
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7 years ' experience in Solution Design and test laboratories for Layer:2 hardware of telecommunications infrastructure.
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Must have 4:5 years of relevant experience working in Solution Design and Testing with Optical technologies.
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Networking technology areas within the overall professional experience.
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The ability to understand and test at the network level is a must. Should have hands:on on transmission hardware in previous/current job.
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Acclaimed specialist in own area with in:depth knowledge of Optical Platform /protocols(i.e. Familiarity with multiple Vendor systems like Infeneria/Ciena/Adva etc and OTN/FC/CWDM/DWDM Services).
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Experience with using traffic generators (Omniber/ANT:xx/Field HH tester(MTT/STT/VeEX)/Spirent)
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Domain knowledge, preferably within a telecom company, system integrator, or global telecom product supplier.
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Experience in evaluating the network performance, and its associated parameters is a must.
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Solid experience in the area of Designing Solutions, and conducting testing to validate solutions proposed in the lab environment fora particular solution (Type Approval Te
Job Type: Permanent