Design Engineer III – Optical

Zayo Group

Design Engineer III at Zayo handling circuit design and managing telecommunication projects. Collaborating with technicians and ensuring technical correctness of design orders with customer commitments.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • Kentucky • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $77,100 - $118,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSwitchingTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for design planning, record creation and order fulfillment of Zayo’s products throughout all Market Areas with a primary focus on design of Zayo’s growth products.
General understanding of network QOS, IP routing, Ethernet switching (including 802.11q, 802.11p, 802.3af), and packet and waves tagging mechanisms.
Work with Service Activation and Field Technicians when issues arise during pre-build and customer turn up activities.
Design & Implementation Engineer III designs complex circuits to interface with other carriers or customer solutions.
Reviews orders for technical correctness and clarifies any design related items back to the responsible departments.
Tracks assigned orders to ensure they are being coordinated in a timely manner.
Manage workload to identify critical issues and prioritize those items that must be completed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent education, training and/or experience
Minimum of five (5) years telecommunications and/or data networking experience including minimum of three (3) years design engineering provisioning experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Working knowledge of routers and other data hardware
Intermediate knowledge of Data Networking and telecommunications, including understanding of basic bandwidth and services: EoTDM, EoC,EoF, 3rd party transport, long haul through our own Network, Ethernet, TCP/IP
Experience with Routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, MPLS)
Products including ELINE, ELAN, Private Line, Dedicated Internet, MPLS, Cloud Services
Experience using Microsoft Office and Google programs and project management software.
Able to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions in controlled situations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

design engineeringtelecommunicationsdata networkingrouting protocolsEthernet switchingIP routingbandwidth managementcircuit designpacket taggingwaves tagging

Soft Skills

communication skillsproblem-solvingworkload managementprioritizationcollaboration