Senior Network Architect

Job Number: 26-01628 Want to be part of the Energy Industry? ECLARO is looking for a Senior Network Architect for our client in Pearl River, NY. ECLARO’s client operates one of the world’s largest energy delivery systems, constantly at the forefront of innovations in developing technology. If you’re up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!

Position Overview:

• Join our team as an Optical Network Engineer and work alongside telecommunications and network engineering professionals responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and maintaining mission-critical optical communications networks that support Client utility operations.
• This position plays a key role in ensuring the reliability, resiliency, capacity, and modernization of the company’s telecommunications infrastructure that supports critical utility services throughout New York City, Westchester County, the Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, and Client territories.

Responsibilities:

• Develop design architectures for the Client, including Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Outside Plant Fiber Cable, microwave transport systems, and DC power infrastructure supporting optical transport equipment.
• Develop engineering plans, scopes of work, bills of materials, technical specifications, and project schedules for the installation of DWDM systems, Outside Plant Fiber Cable, microwave systems, DC power systems, and related telecommunications infrastructure.
• Develop engineering plans, scopes of work, bills of materials, and project schedules for the construction and installation of communications huts, equipment rooms, relay racks, cabinets, grounding systems, and supporting telecommunications infrastructure.
• Develop Methods of Procedure (MOPs) for network implementation, service migrations, maintenance activities, change management, testing, troubleshooting, and emergency restoration efforts.
• Design optical transport networks supporting SCADA, feeder relay protection, Operational Technology (OT) systems, Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), voice services, cybersecurity applications, Energy Management Systems (EMS), and corporate network connectivity.
• Perform network engineering activities supporting telecommunications services between Energy Control Centers, substations, generating stations, data centers, microwave sites, and corporate facilities.
• Perform equipment commissioning, network turn-up, acceptance testing, troubleshooting, service restoration, and lifecycle upgrades using optical and telecommunications test equipment.
• Perform Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT) and physical- and transport-layer validation, including end-to-end commissioning, circuit turn-up, troubleshooting, and performance verification across legacy TDM, MPLS, DWDM, microwave, Ethernet, and Fiber Channel transport systems.
• Utilize optical test equipment including Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers (OTDRs), optical power meters, light sources, optical spectrum analyzers, fiber-inspection equipment, and related telecommunications testing tools.
• Install, route, label, inspect, clean, test, and document fiber-optic cabling and jumper connections, verifying fiber assignments, port assignments, wavelengths, optical power levels, and end-to-end circuit connectivity.
• Develop and maintain DWDM network designs, including wavelength plans, optical power and loss budgets, resiliency improvements, equipment configurations, capacity expansions, and lifecycle modernization initiatives.
• Operate, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot DWDM network elements and supporting systems, including transponders, muxponders, amplifiers, ROADMs, multiplexers, demultiplexers, and network management platforms.
• Support microwave radio network engineering activities, including path analysis, equipment deployment, performance verification, service integration, troubleshooting, and maintenance coordination.
• Supervise and coordinate telecommunications installation vendors and contractors, review installation quality, and verify completeness and accuracy of as-built documentation.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, design templates, configuration standards, and network documentation.
• Participate in emergency restoration efforts associated with telecommunications and utility infrastructure.
• Travel throughout Client service territories to support engineering, implementation, testing, maintenance, troubleshooting, and emer…