# Optical Network Engineer

What Success Looks Like (Objectives): Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview. This role drives the architecture, implementation, and optimization of core transport and routed optical network infrastructure. The candidate will address challenges related to network capacity, high-availability optical ring reliability, and complex routing integration across enterprise environments. Success involves maintaining operational uptime, validating spend and circuit lifecycles, and modernizing transport workflows using automation and artificial intelligence. What Success Looks Like (Objectives): Take ownership of the reliability and capacity of the regional Zayo dark fiber rings and core routed optical network (RON) infrastructure within the first 90 days Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to junior members of the transport and data networking teams to elevate the collective technical standard Collaborate with various stakeholders to gather requirements and design scalable transport and routing solutions that translate business capacity needs into resilient specifications Drive hands-on implementation and ongoing maintenance for network t

- **Id**: 4245363
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-optical-network-engineer>
- **Role**: Networking
- **Role family**: Networking
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Englewood, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-12T17:57:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 31
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10170
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 96250
- **Max**: 137500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 137500

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **BGP** — Optional: no
- **MPLS** — Optional: no
- **OSPF** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **VLAN** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 31

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:25:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.45
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 31
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T14:04:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 137500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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