Summary

This position is responsible for maintaining a subsea dark fiber network for a growing, multi-tenant data center and international cable landing station.

As the Subsea Cable Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for day-to-day requirements, regular preventative maintenance, vendor management and all aspects of the on-site critical systems.

This is a great opportunity to get in with an organization that is breaking ground on a multitude of projects that are catapulting them into being a top industry leader in data management.

Responsibilities

• Management of CLS personnel, including strict adherence to required training, regulatory, performance, and reliability requirements
• Engineer shall understand and shall comply with optical and power safety procedures and requirements outlined in relevant suppliers’ operations and maintenance manuals
• Serve as the

Certified

Power Safety Officer (PSO) for the CLS Oversite of vendors to ensure that all work is addressed according to best practice and established procedures and cable landing station procedures

• Maintain security posture for all CLS, customer, and PFE needs
• Complete subsea cable front haul route inspections from CLS to Beach manhole based on provided requirements and follow up with front haul operations and maintenance tasks required based on inspections and formed maintenance schedules (Training will be provided on particular needs contract negotiated with the client.
• Understand, report and schedule corrections for all unintended issues based on contracts with subsea cable provider
• Ability to work with offsite NOC to respond to any alerts and meet SLAs required by client contracts
• Performs physical data center inspections and log reporting
• Operate and manage critical electrical systems including utility power, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, PDU systems, power feed equipment, and power busways
• Operate and manage critical mechanical systems including computer room air conditioners, chillers, cooling towers, fire detection / suppression, etc.

Qualifications

• Must be certified as a PSO (Power Safety Officer)
• Minimum of 10 years of experience with optical network equipment and testing meters used for troubleshooting optical fiber
• SLTEs (Submarine Lite Terminal Equipment), Lite power Amplifiers and how to operate, configure, and troubleshoot these items.
• Experience with PFEs, branching units, DC power, subsea cable testing with COTD, OTDR, and if possible knowledge of how the following components work ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop multiplexer), sWMU (switchable Wavelength multiplexer unit).
• Knowledge of DC power and how DC is used by HVPFE at both ends of the cable system to provide and share the power load on the submarine cable.
• Experience with critical electrical systems in a cable landing station including : UPS systems, Generator systems, Electrical switch gear, Power distribution, Power feed equipment
• Experience with monitoring critical electrical and mechanical systems
• CT management and replacements
• Setting thresholds and alarm notification settings
• Working knowledge of monitoring technologies and methodologies (EPMS, BMS, SCADA, DCIM)
• Certified PFE specialist or proof of work in other cable landing stations

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• NFPA 70E trained
• Accredited operations specialist certification from Uptime Institute or similar data center certification
• Safety certifications

Last updated : 2024-05-09