System Engineer - Network Planning Software

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What will you do at Ciena?

Would be responsible for defining Optical Link Engineering requirements for the planning software team for supporting varied Ciena products. Ensuring their accurate implementation in the Planning Products and also validating the optical results coming out of Planning Products.

Major Responsibilities
• Understand the link budgeting needs of the CIENA products and Planning software
• Define detailed requirements from Link Engineering perspective for Planning Software Team
• Monitoring and Tracking of Link Engineering requirements in the software.
• Validate the Optical results coming out of the Planning Tool. Creation of manual tools for validation of results.
• Support customers and field system engineers with their network designs from Link Engineering Perspective

• Understand Ciena Optical products (Modems, Optical transport lines, Control Plane, Network Management Systems) to ensure appropriate modeling in Planning Tools

Collaboration with stakeholders
• Work closely with Software developers and clarify Hardware requirements

• Working with Product Owners around the supporting of these configurations in the different workflows. Identify the gaps if there are any.

• Interact with Ciena Sales Engineer and Ciena customers to understand Planning Tools usage and requirements

Experience
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Optical Communications / Networking with 0-2 years of experience working with DWDM Platforms

• Excellent and In-Depth knowledge of Optical Technologies and Architectures

• Familiar with simulation tools to compute OSNR Margin, Power Propagation

• Good knowledge to Linear and Non-Linear effects impacting Optical networks

• Good Communication skills with strong analytical ability

• Excellent team worker with strong interpersonal skills

• Knowledge of writing scripts in MATLAB, TCL, MS Excel etc would be an advantage.

• Knowledge of different software technologies and architectures will be an asset

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