Fiber Engineer (Splicing & OTDR Testing)

Fiber Test Engineer / Datacenter Fiber Specialist

Multiple Locations:

• Washington DC metro
• Blue Ridge / Manassas, VA
• Boydton, VA 2
• Des Moines, IA
• Chicago, IL
• San Antonio, TX
• Phoenix, AZ
• San Jose/Bay Area, CA
• Quincy, WA

Contract: 12+ months

Key Responsibilities

1. Fiber Management & Maintenance

• Prevent fiber cuts, degradation, and outages by proactively monitoring and maintaining the fiber infrastructure.

• Perform regular fiber inspections, cleaning, and testing to ensure operational integrity.

• Educate and coach Client full-time employees on fiber maintenance and best practices.

• Collaborate with suppliers, partners, technicians, and customers to coordinate fiber delivery and management.

• Oversee leased and Client-owned fiber to ensure defect-free and on-time delivery of customer capacity.

• Plan and manage fiber logistics, infrastructure, and resources required for new data center expansions.

• Manage vendor/partner relationships, contracts, and service level agreements (SLAs) for fiber-related operations.

• Provide root cause analysis (RCA), lessons learned, and best practice recommendations to improve fiber operations.

2. Fiber Deployment & Testing

• Conduct end-to-end fiber testing to validate new installations and troubleshoot existing infrastructure.

• Perform optical loss testing, OTDR analysis, insertion loss measurements, reflectance tests, and return loss evaluations.

• Ensure all fiber test equipment is calibrated and certified within the past 12 months.

• Generate detailed reports of fiber test results in raw and PDF formats for Client engineering teams.

• Conduct fiber splicing activities to support break-fix operations and deployment needs (bulk splicing excluded).

• Serve as a remote hands expert for Client engineering teams and third-party fiber providers.

3. Data Center Hygiene & Compliance

• Inspect fiber paths, patch panels, racks, and ports for proper cleanliness and organization.

• Perform remediation tasks such as cable management, labeling updates, and quality assurance measures.

• Trace optical jumpers along circuit pathways to verify quality and eliminate congestion or potential damage.

• Ensure adherence to industry safety codes, regulations, and best practices for fiber optic installations.

4. Change Management & Troubleshooting

• Support fiber-related change management activities, including testing and validation of network modifications.

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for fiber-related changes within carrier hotels, meet-me rooms, and leased facilities.

• Troubleshoot and restore fiber outages, working closely with Client remote engineering teams.

• Implement disaster recovery procedures for fiber-related incidents in enterprise environments.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent with 3+ years of experience supporting fiber optic networks or large-scale deployments.

• Strong knowledge of fiber optics, dark and lit fiber networks, OTDR testing, and fiber maintenance.

• Experience in fiber optic splicing, testing, and documentation in field service environments.

• Understanding of data center infrastructure, including servers, networking, and rack enclosures.

• Proficiency with fiber testing tools, such as fusion splicers, OTDRs, power meters, and fiber identifiers.

• Ability to read and interpret fiber optic maps, schematics, and test results.