UMS

Optical Network Architect

UMS

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $130,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

Switching

About the role

  • Lead the design, evolution, and performance optimization of our regional optical network, which forms the backbone of Networkmaine.
  • Our network—spanning Maine, New Hampshire, and into Massachusetts—supports UMS and more than 800 public constituents, the majority connected via high-performance optical infrastructure.
  • At its core, Networkmaine is an all-optical environment, enabling robust, scalable, and resilient connectivity for research, education, and public service.
  • If you have a passion for cutting-edge optical transport technologies and want to shape the future of a mission-critical, five-nines network, this position offers both strategic influence and hands-on impact.
  • This is a hybrid position that is primarily remote, with occasional travel to Portland, Maine, for key meetings, major outage response, and hands-on project work.
  • Please review the University Guidelines for Remote Work.
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Architectural Leadership: Define and set the technical direction for the UMS regional optical network, including DWDM, packet transport, and IP service layers.
  • Design & Implementation: Develop conceptual, logical, and physical designs for optical, packet, and IP infrastructure; perform installations and advanced configurations.
  • Performance & Reliability: Conduct capacity planning, analyze performance, and implement enhancements to ensure high availability and resiliency.
  • Collaboration: Serve as the lead liaison with UMS network constituents, partner organizations, R&E networks, service providers, and equipment vendors.
  • Technology Evaluation: Assess emerging technologies for architectural fit, performance, and operational feasibility.
  • Standards & Automation: Promote standardization, documentation, and automation across network operations.
  • Supervision: Directly supervise up to two full-time network engineers and provide mentorship to additional staff and students during projects and outage response.
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:
  • Strong understanding of facilities-based service provider network architecture and hardware solutions.
  • Deep expertise in the design and operation of optical, transport, and IP network architecture and related protocols.
  • In-depth understanding of relevant network security considerations.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to work well under pressure in a high-stakes environment to expedite service restoration and problem resolution.
  • Ability to reliably travel to Portland, Maine, facilities within four hours travel time for in-person assistance in major outage response efforts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field
  • In lieu of a technical degree, a non-technical degree with equivalent experience may be considered.
  • Minimum of ten years of relevant experience with Optical, Transport, MPLS/Segment Routing, BGP, routing, switching, IPv4/IPv6, and EVPN.