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Manager, Design Engineering - Optical

Zayo Group 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America

$84,900 - $130,600 Full-time Manager

Lead and develop a team of Optical Design Engineers responsible for designing, planning, and implementing DWDM network services and capacity projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, customer commitments, technical escalations, engineering standards, and coordination with internal teams and field operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of Optical Design Engineers responsible for designing, planning, and implementing DWDM network services and capacity projects. Manage project priorities, deadlines, customer commitments, technical escalations, engineering standards, and coordination with internal teams and field operations.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent education, training, or experience, at least seven years of telecommunications or data networking experience, and at least two years of telecommunications project management or lead engineering experience. Candidates should have working knowledge of optical systems, DWDM signal flow and fixed or flex grid ROADM designs, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and familiarity with relevant optical equipment and project or inventory systems.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Retirement Plans

Key Skills

Team leadership Optical design engineering DWDM network design Capacity planning Project management Customer commitment management Technical escalation handling Engineering standards enforcement Coordination with field operations Telecommunications engineering Optical systems knowledge ROADM design Signal flow analysis Problem solving Communication Strategic planning Cross‑functional collaboration

About Zayo Group

For more than 18 years, Zayo Group of companies has helped the world’s most ambitious organizations build the infrastructure behind what’s next. With one of the largest independent fiber networks, spanning 32 million fiber miles and 224,000 route miles across North America, Zayo powers the connectivity behind cloud, AI, media, financial markets, healthcare innovation, and global communications. As the digital economy accelerates, organizations need more than bandwidth. They need infrastructure that is secure, resilient, and built to support the demands of a data-driven world. Zayo combines deep fiber infrastructure with the expertise to design, deploy, and scale networks end-to-end helping organizations build the right architecture for whatever comes next. Behind that infrastructure is a team of engineers, operators, and problem-solvers who take pride in delivering the performance, reliability, and partnership our customers depend on every day. From blueprint to deployment, we help org

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