Resident Engineer

1 month ago

Remote, Oregon, United States Ciena Full time

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We're a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

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Provide system level post-sales support for CIENA's Customer base including the following product lines: 6500, RLS, Waveserver, MCP among others, this position is intended to be full-Time based in the US preferably Denver area but would consider remote with monthly visits to Denver as a Resident Engineer for a single customer. This includes testing, troubleshooting and remote technical support for CIENA products.

A firm understanding of the fiber optic transport and/or switching protocols is essential. Knowledge and experience with personal computers, Microsoft office suite of software. Mid-level expertise in data communications protocols including Ethernet and IP networks is required. Experience with UNIX and SUN/Oracle systems would be beneficial. Experience with Element Management or Network Management systems would be an asset.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide on-site and telephone technical support on all Ciena optical transport and network management products.
  • Ability to work in a 24 x 7 environment where shift work and on-call duty on evenings and weekends is required.
  • Analyze and provide network solution recommendations to customers and internal organizations (i.e. system engineers, consultants, etc.).
  • Evaluate product performance and serviceability in order to contribute to the design of new or modified products.
  • Create, review, validate and publish required customer facing documents such as Method of Procedures (MOPS) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports.
  • Some travel may be required.

GENERAL ACTIVITIES

  • Use professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve customer problems escalated to this level of expertise from lower levels using product simulations, accurately defining the problem to development engineering and ensuring problem is fixed to satisfaction of customer. This may require travel to the customer's site if problem duplication efforts are not effective in resolving customer problem.
  • Participate with peers to co-resolve critical client multi-technology network issues and provide creative recommendations to highly complex network issues.
  • Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
  • Excellent customers service interaction skills especially in stressful situations.
  • Highly motivated individual that encourages initiative in others; takes action to create opportunities or avoid problems.

COLLABORATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS

  • Work with the development teams to obtain detailed technical information and understanding of company products.
  • Work with others in the Service and Sales organization to obtain client network and relations information.

EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field/discipline.
  • 2-5 years' experience in technical support - preferably an equipment vendor in the Telco equipment industry.
  • Excellent understanding of SONET/SDH, OTN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, Photonics, DWDM, ROADM and various Switching/Transport technologies and products are required.
  • Experience on one or more of the following optical transport platforms is a plus: OME 6500, RLS and Waveserver Products
  • Experience in the use of network design tools such as OnePlanner, Optical Modeler and Ciena Network Designer.
  • Good understanding of the network management applications offered by Ciena and the underlying components that make up a fully integrated network management platform solution used to monitor and maintain customer networks.
  • Knowledge and experience with computers/servers, operating systems and databases to include UNIX, LINUX, VXworks, Oracle, and MySQL.
  • Familiar with the use of various optical and Ethernet technologies test equipment.
  • Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and debug complex system level issues on fiber optic telecommunications transport and switching equipment.
  • Assist with multi-product interoperability issues between Ciena products or with external vendor equipment.
  • Requires fast and accurate judgment and analysis of complex situations and strong decision making skills
  • Must be able to work well in a collaborative environment that promotes sharing of knowledge and experiences.
  • Team Player with the ability to adapt to a continually changing market and customer demands.
  • Able to prioritize and promptly respond to customer issues/requests.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.

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At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.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.

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