DC Architect – Optical / Cabling

• Competitive total compensation package including base salary and equity participation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous paid time off.
• The opportunity to architect greenfield and expansion hyperscale deployments with cutting edge optical technologies.
• A highly technical, mission driven culture focused on excellence and execution.

• →Convert high-level network concepts into scalable physical connectivity frameworks, including fiber and cabling infrastructure designs.
• →Design comprehensive fiber infrastructure plans, defining multi-fiber connector schemes, backbone capacity planning, modular panel configurations, and cabinet-level routing approaches.
• →Create port to fiber mapping standards that support high density, multi pod hyperscale deployments.
• →Define optical transceiver strategies for 400G and 800G environments, including reach analysis and link budget modeling.
• →Establish structured cabling standards covering patching architecture, pathways, labeling, and documentation.
• →Ensure infrastructure readiness for future speed migrations and hardware refresh cycles.
• →Incorporate physical connectivity details into infrastructure management systems to enable granular tracking of individual links and connection points.
• →Partner with cross functional engineering and operations teams to support deployment, testing, and ongoing lifecycle management.

• Extensive experience developing network infrastructure frameworks for large, mission-critical facilities, ideally within highly scaled, high-volume environments.
• Deep expertise in structured cabling systems from major manufacturers and strong command of MPO and MTP based architectures.
• Strong understanding of IEEE 802.3 optical standards and modern transceiver technologies including DR4, FR4, LR4, SR8, and coherent interconnect solutions.
• Hands on knowledge of fiber testing methodologies including OTDR, insertion loss testing, and polarity validation.
• Experience coordinating physical infrastructure documentation within broader operational or tracking systems.
• Ability to balance technical depth with practical implementation, cost optimization, and long term scalability.

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