Outside Plant Engineer III

Astreya•Denver, CO

2d•$89,600 - $112,000

About The Position

The Outside Plant Engineer III supports OSP fiber operations and engineering, with responsibility for reviewing designs, planning safe cutovers, supporting field execution, validating fiber testing, troubleshooting, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating delivery across teams. The role serves as an engineering point of contact for field crews during turn-ups, cross-connect delivery, and migration cutovers, making real-time decisions when field conditions differ from the plan. It also provides technical leadership through mentoring, documentation, and process improvement.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in OSP fiber operations or OSP engineering within data center or telecom infrastructure environments.
OSP engineering background and senior-level ability to read, interpret, and validate OSP designs, splice matrices, and construction drawings.
Hands-on fusion and mechanical splicing experience, with 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 skills, including bidirectional traces, event classification, loss budgets, and fault localization.
Fluency with GIS and fiber management platforms.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a data center 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.

Responsibilities

Interpret OSP designs for buildability and execution risk.
Prepare and approve splice matrices, cut sheets, and cut plans that account for in-service traffic, maintenance windows, and rollback paths.
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 decisions when field conditions deviate from the plan.
Validate field test results, including OTDR, OLTS, VFL, and inspection results.
Lead turn-up troubleshooting using bidirectional OTDR analysis, loss budget validation, and fault localization.
Review case audit sheets, reconcile findings against splice matrices, path records, and GIS, and drive remediation.
Maintain accurate as-builts, splice documentation, and system-of-record entries.
Coordinate with design engineering, construction, splicing vendors, network engineering, and operations to deliver turn-ups across programs.
Report project status and completion to project stakeholders.
Mentor junior operations engineers.
Author MOPs, SOPs, and job aids, and drive team standards and process improvement.

Benefits

Medical insurance through UHC (PPO, HSA, and Surest options) or Kaiser (HMO option for California employees only).
Dental insurance through UHC.
Vision insurance through Nationwide Vision by UHC.
Flexible Spending Account for health and dependent care.
Pre-tax commuter benefit for parking and transit, depending on location.
Continuing education and professional development through platforms such as Udemy and Coursera.
Corporate wellness program.
Employee Assistance Program.
Wellness Days.
401(k) plan.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Critical illness, critical hospital, and voluntary accident insurance.
Tuition reimbursement, available six months after the start date and subject to a cap.
Paid Time Off accrued and prorated, up to 120 hours annually.
Paid holidays.
Other statutory leaves, paid time, or ancillary benefits required under state and federal law.