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Outside Plant Engineer III

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In-Office
Denver, CO, USA
90K-112K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Denver, CO, USA
90K-112K Annually
Senior level
Leads outside plant fiber engineering operations, including design reviews, splice and cut planning, field crew support, optical testing, troubleshooting, audit remediation, records integrity, and cross-functional turn-up coordination. Authors operational procedures, mentors junior engineers, and drives standards improvement. Requires extensive OSP engineering and hands-on fiber splicing experience, advanced OTDR analysis, GIS proficiency, and familiarity with live telecom or data center infrastructure.
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Key Responsibilities
  • Design Review & Cut Planning: Interpret OSP designs for buildability and execution risk. Prepare and sign off on splice matrices, cut sheets, and cut plans that account for in-service traffic, maintenance windows, and rollback paths.
  • Execution & Field Support: Serve as the operations point of contact for field splicing and installation crews during turn-ups, cross-connect delivery, and migration cutovers. Make real-time engineering calls when field conditions deviate from plan.
  • Testing & Troubleshooting: Validate field test results (OTDR, OLTS, VFL, inspection) and lead troubleshooting during turn-up using bidirectional OTDR analysis, loss budget validation, and fault localization.
  • Case Audits & Records Integrity: Review case audit sheets, reconcile findings against splice matrices, path records, and GIS, and drive remediation. Keep as-builts, splice documentation, and system-of-record entries accurate.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with design engineering, construction, splicing vendors, network engineering, and operations to deliver clean turn-ups across all programs and report out to project stakeholders on project status and completion.
  • Technical Leadership: Mentor junior operations engineers, author MOPs, SOPs, and job aids, and drive standards and process improvement across the team.
Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years in OSP fiber operations or OSP engineering within data center or telecom infrastructure environments
  • OSP engineering background is required and must be able to read, interpret, and validate OSP designs, splice matrices, and construction drawings at a senior level
  • Prior hands-on splicing experience (fusion, mechanical) and strong working knowledge of fiber cable types, splice closures, patch panel architectures, and cross-connect fields
  • Demonstrated ownership of splice matrices, cut sheets, and cut plans in live, in-service environments
  • Advanced OTDR analysis bidirectional traces, event classification, loss budgets, and fault localization
  • Fluency with GIS and fiber management platforms 
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in a DC OSP operations environment within a hyperscaler, cloud provider, or large-scale data center operator
  • Experience with carrier hand-off migrations (MMV to MMH or similar) and in-service infrastructure cutovers
  • Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Working knowledge of ROADM / DWDM transport and the interaction between OSP decisions and the optical layer

Salary Range

$89,600.00 - $112,000.00 USD (Salary)
  • Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit.
  • Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.

Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including:

  • Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only

  • Dental provided through UHC

  • Nationwide Vision provided by UHC

  • Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care

  • Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)

  • Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera

  • Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Wellness Days

    401k Plan

  • Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

  • Short Term & Long Term Disability

  • Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance

  • Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)

  • Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)

  • Paid Holidays

  • Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law

Astreya Thornton, Colorado, USA Office

Thornton, United States

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