Manager, Fiber Network Engineering

About the Role

This leadership position within Logix’s Network Engineering department oversees organization-wide network systems and information, managing major engineering projects, system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages. The role focuses on IP/MPLS and optical networking technologies, including BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, ROADM, DWDM, carrier Ethernet, and platforms from Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, and Ciena. It combines technical leadership, team development, strategic planning, project management, and operational oversight while partnering with other leaders across Logix to support collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Network Engineering team and manage projects and network capacity.
• Evaluate and test new technologies, providing technical recommendations to upper management.
• Develop budgets and cost-benefit analyses for network-based projects.
• Assist in current and future optical network designs.
• Coordinate with engineering staff for daily work assignments, reports, and analytics related to the Network Engineering workload.
• Provide departmental reports to upper management as needed.
• Organize and communicate departmental objectives effectively.
• Oversee and provide input on process workflows for Network Engineering ticket activities and implementation of new technologies.
• Attend and/or set up meetings within the group and with other departments as needed.
• Manage all Lab testing projects and produce supporting documentation.
• Ensure proper creation, review, and implementation of change management procedures.
• Serve as the first line of escalation for the Network Engineering on-call person.
• Conduct departmental and individual performance reviews.
• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, evaluating, motivating, coaching, and developing employees.
• Plan and allocate resources, follow budgets, and make strategic recommendations.
• Partner with other leaders in Logix to encourage team collaboration.
• Predict risks and escalate before they occur.
• Perform other duties as requested by the Director of Engineering or as business needs dictate.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of ROADM and DWDM-based fiber optic networks.
• Advanced knowledge of MPLS, including LDP, RSVP-TE or segment routing concepts, Layer 2/Layer 3 VPNs, traffic engineering, and carrier Ethernet services.
• Deep hands-on experience with BGP, including route policy, communities, route reflectors, peering, transit, customer routing, and troubleshooting.
• Strong operational and design experience with IS-IS and OSPF in large-scale routed networks.
• Demonstrated experience working with Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, and Ciena platforms in production carrier environments.
• Strong understanding of carrier network design principles, including redundancy, resiliency, convergence, QoS, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Ability to analyze packet captures, routing tables, forwarding behavior, telemetry, logs, and performance data to isolate and resolve complex issues.
• Experience developing detailed network documentation, method-of-procedure documents, test plans, and implementation plans.
• Operating knowledge of inventory management and order processing applications.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Strong interpersonal, creative, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, define problems, and evaluate their seriousness.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or equivalent practical experience (recommended: college degree or 15+ years’ experience in a major area).

Desired Skills & Experience

• Familiarity with optical transport systems, including ROADM, DWDM, coherent optics, wavelength services, and optical layer troubleshooting.
• Experience with carrier automation, telemetry, or configuration management tools such as Python, Ansible, NETCONF, YANG, gNMI, or vendor-specific APIs.
• Relevant industry certifications such as JNCIP/JNCIE, CCNP/CCIE Service Provider, Nokia NRS, or Ciena certifications.
• Experience supporting network modernization, IP/optical convergence, segment routing, EVPN, DCI, or large-scale backbone expansion initiatives.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Paid vacations
• 401K
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.