DWDM & IP/MPLS Planner - Damascus Based

Plan, design, optimize, and document the integrated DWDM/optical transport and IP-MPLS network for Silklink, covering optical capacity, wavelength planning, transport paths, IP/MPLS topology, routing, service enablement, capacity expansion, protection, diversity, synchronization, inventory alignment, and implementation-ready network planning deliverables.

Job Description & Responsibilities:

• Develop integrated DWDM and IP-MPLS network plans covering backbone, metro, aggregation, edge, peering/interconnect, inter-site connectivity, optical transport, service routing, and capacity expansion.
• Translate traffic forecasts, customer/service requirements, IP/MPLS needs, and transport availability into wavelength, channel, OTN, router, link, port, interface, routing, and service capacity plans.
• Prepare end-to-end topology plans covering optical paths, logical IP/MPLS connectivity, wavelength allocation, MPLS-LSP/SR-MPLS/SR-TE, IP addressing, VLAN, VRF, EVPN L2/L3, E-Line/E-LAN, Transit, Peering, leased lines, service planning, QoS, and migration plans.
• Design and validate DWDM optical paths and IP/MPLS transport connectivity, including protection schemes, diversity, latency constraints, regeneration requirements, ROADM/OADM usage, including CDC-F ROADM, transponder/muxponder capacity, power budget constraints, and service resilience.
• Plan and validate optical spectrum usage, including ITU-T grids, Flex Grid, super channels, and related wavelength/channel utilization for IP/MPLS traffic growth and service demands.
• Define and review multilayer protection and resiliency across DWDM, OTN, optical protection, ASON, Ethernet protection, such as G.8032/ERPS, and IP/MPLS routing redundancy.
• Plan synchronization requirements across the DWDM transport and IP/MPLS service layers, including frequency and phase synchronization using SyncE and IEEE 1588v2/PTP.
• Support planning and activation requirements for IP/MPLS security and service assurance, including DDoS protection activation, DPI integration, routing security, and segmentation.
• Review existing DWDM and IP/MPLS inventory, including fiber routes, shelf/card/port capacity, wavelength utilization, router inventory, interface utilization, circuit records, configuration extracts, NMS/EMS data, monitoring data, and as-built records to validate the current state.
• Coordinate with fiber planners, DWDM planners, IP/MPLS planners, operations, vendors, rollout, service assurance, and implementation teams to align optical transport readiness with logical IP/MPLS service and routing requirements.
• Prepare planning outputs including wavelength allocation, trail/path records, equipment/card requirements, router/interface requirements, port assignments, circuit records, IP/MPLS service records, logical diagrams, and migration packs.
• Support reconciliation of planned DWDM and IP/MPLS services with network inventory, circuit management systems, NMS/EMS platforms, and implementation handover documentation.
• Identify risks related to DWDM and IP/MPLS capacity exhaustion, lack of route diversity, optical impairments, single points of failure, incompatible equipment, routing conflicts, inconsistent naming, stale records, and implementation gaps.
• Ensure all DWDM and IP/MPLS plans follow vendor engineering guidelines, Silklink standards, naming conventions, service design rules, inventory governance, and documentation quality requirements.
• Produce clean planning datasets, diagrams, port/interface assignments, wavelength/path records, service routing inputs, capacity reports, and implementation-ready handover packs for operations and rollout teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Telecom, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 15+ years of experience in DWDM/OTN/optical transport planning and IP/MPLS planning, service provider network engineering, or backbone design.
• Strong knowledge of DWDM, OTN, wavelengths, ROADM, CDC-F ROADM, transponders, muxponders, protection, optical budgets, latency, fiber impairments, and optical capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of IP/MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, QoS, redundancy, routing policy, IP addressing, service routing, and service migration.
• Experience with major optical transport vendors, router/switch vendors, NMS/EMS platforms, use of inventory systems, and configuration/circuit data interpretation.
• Experience with route reflectors, IXP, IGW, network planes, core, edge, aggregation, metro, backbone, and inter-site connectivity planning.
• Familiarity with L2/L3 switching, Carrier Ethernet, EVPN, OTN service mapping, and multilayer service planning.
• Ability to validate DWDM transport paths and IP/MPLS logical services using fiber, port, shelf, card, router, interface, wavelength, circuit, and inventory data.
• Ability to prepare HLD/LLD inputs, optical and logical diagrams, migration packs, service planning records, wavelength/path records, and planning-ready documentation.
• SDN experience is an advantage, especially for transport automation, IP/MPLS service automation, network inventory, or multilayer planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and practical communication with technical and non-technical teams across DWDM, IP/MPLS, fiber, operations, rollout, and vendor domains.
• High attention to detail, quality mindset, and structured documentation habits for both optical transport and IP/MPLS planning records.
• Ability to work under delivery pressure while maintaining accuracy, planning discipline, and governance across DWDM and IP/MPLS deliverables.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ownership of assigned transport, routing, capacity, and service planning deliverables.
• Collaborative mindset across planning, engineering, operations, rollout, vendors, and service assurance teams.
• CCNP/CCIE Service Provider, JNCIP/JNCIE, or equivalent preferred.
• MEF / Carrier Ethernet / OTN certification or training is an advantage.