Data Center Optical Engineer

12 hours ago

Reston, Virginia, United States Ericsson Full time
About this Opportunity

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Data Center Optical Engineer to join our team at Ericsson. The ideal candidate will have experience in racking, cabling, and stacking equipment, decommissioning, break-fix, remote hands services, hardware replacement, network transport optical troubleshooting, and power management.

Key Responsibilities
  • Break-Fix: Work outside of normal business hours, including nights and weekends, to ensure seamless operation of our data center facilities.
  • Remote Hands: In-depth knowledge of data center equipment installation and basic testing methods and procedures (MOPs), including operating principles of data center, wireline and IP transport environments.
  • Cabling: Ability to work in overhead rack or grid for extended periods of time pulling long lengths of heavy cables, handling, installation, and troubleshooting of Ethernet and fiber cables and connectors.
  • Optical Testing and Troubleshooting: Complete all activities associated with physically placing equipment, including routing, lacing, labeling, terminating, and local/remote testing and turn up of ethernet, switch board, fiber, and power cables.
  • Site Audits: Review project specifications to validate equipment placement, cable assignments, and determine cable lengths, then document results in proprietary databases.
  • Racking and Stacking: Install, organize, and maintain hardware equipment in data center racks following standard operating procedures.
  • Decommissioning: Safely remove and dispose of outdated or failed hardware following data destruction protocols.
  • Hardware Replacement: Replace faulty hardware components, including transport routers, servers, switches, and other network & IT equipment.
  • Power Management: Work with power feeds, including redundancy, automatic transfer switches (ATS), and manage hot/cold aisles effectively.
Requirements
  • 5 years of experience working as a technician in data center operations or a similar environment.
  • 5 years of experience in customer service, interacting directly with customers.
  • 5 years of experience working with data center equipment, including safe handling of live hardware and rack building/installation.
  • 5 years of experience reading cut-sheets for physical network installation: identifying port connection locations, positions, and overhead trays for running cables, and relevant patch panels to connect to.
  • 5 years of experience working with power feeds: including redundancy, ATS, hot/cold aisles, rack builds/installations, networking hardware (including cabling, switches, servers), and associated troubleshooting.
What We Offer

At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

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