# Senior Systems Engineer

As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity-driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact. This customer-facing sales engineering role partners with the Account Manager for India-West accounts in Mumbai to shape network solutions and build trusted technical relationships. The position translates customer planning, engineering, architecture, IT, and operations requirements into proposals, network designs, product configurations, and sales quotes. Its impact includes advancing next-generation converged architectures and Adaptive Networking applications across customer networks. How you will make an impact: Lead technical customer engagements, gather networking requirements, and evaluate solution needs during sales meetings. Consult with prospective and existing customers on Ciena solutions for next-generation architectures and develop advanced use cases for converged architectures and Adaptive Net

- **Id**: 4077499
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ciena-corporation-senior-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mumbai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T15:57:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T15:57:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3941
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Telecom Infrastructure, Optical Communications

## Company

- **Id**: 1996
- **Name**: Ciena Corporation
- **Domain**: ciena.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ciena>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.844
- **Repost share**: 0.031
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no
- **MPLS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T15:57:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T17:58:17Z

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