Position Objectives
Plan and optimise DWDM and optical transport network capacity, covering wavelength planning, optical path design, equipment capacity, protection, diversity, and implementation-ready transport documentation.
Job Description and Responsibilities
- Prepare DWDM/optical transport plans for backbone, metro, and inter-site connectivity requirements.
- Translate traffic demand, service requirements, and IP/MPLS needs into wavelength, channel, OTN, and transport capacity plans.
- Design and validate optical paths, protection schemes, diversity, regeneration requirements, ROADM/OADM usage (including CDC-F ROADM), transponder capacity, and power budget constraints.
- Strong in optical spectrum, such as ITU-T grids and Flex Grid as Super Channels.
- Knowledge about multilayer protection, from optical like OLP to ASON to L2 as G.8032 (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching - ERPS) or equivalent.
- Synchronism in frequency and phase, SyncE and IEEE 1588v2 (PTP).
- Review existing transport inventory, fibre routes, shelf/card/port capacity, wavelength utilisation, and as-built records.
- Coordinate with fibre planners, IP/MPLS planners, operations, vendors, and implementation teams to align optical plans with physical route and service requirements.
- Prepare planning outputs, including wavelength allocation, trail/path records, equipment/card requirements, port assignments, and migration plans.
- Support reconciliation of planned DWDM services with network inventory, circuit records, and NMS/EMS data.
- Identify risks related to capacity exhaustion, lack of route diversity, optical impairments, incompatible equipment, or inaccurate records.
- Ensure plans follow vendor engineering guidelines, standards, naming conventions, and documentation governance.
- Strong stakeholder management and practical communication with technical and non-technical teams.
- close attention to detail, quality mindset, and structured documentation habits.
- Ability to work under delivery pressure while maintaining accuracy and governance.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ownership of assigned deliverables.
- Collaborative mindset across planning, engineering, operations, rollout, and vendor teams.
- English and Arabic – mandatory.