Fiber Engineer- (OTDR Testing Expert)
Company: A leading telecom company
Contract: 12+ Months
Are you an experienced Fiber Engineer or OTDR Testing Technician with hands-on expertise using EXFO or Viavi or any other OTDR equipment? We're looking for skilled professionals to support large-scale data centre infrastructure projects, carrying out advanced fiber optic testing, troubleshooting, and fault resolution.
This is an excellent opportunity to work on mission-critical fibre networks within enterprise data centre environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform OTDR testing to identify fibre breaks, bends, high-loss events, and other network faults.
- Troubleshoot and repair fibre optic links across large-scale data centre environments.
- Operate and configure EXFO and Viavi or any other OTDR test equipment.
- Analyse and interpret OTDR trace results, event tables, and return loss measurements to accurately locate faults.
- Identify fibre counts, cable routes, splice points, and damaged sections using OTDR testing.
- Work with ribbon fibre cables and ribbon connectors, including fault identification and testing.
- Carry out fibre optic testing, validation, and fault diagnostics to industry standards.
- Produce detailed test reports, documentation, and as-built records.
- Support installation, commissioning, and customer acceptance testing.
- Provide on-site technical support and collaborate with project teams to resolve network issues efficiently.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience performing OTDR testing in fibre optic networks.
- Hands-on experience using EXFO and/or Viavi OTDR equipment.
- Strong knowledge of fibre optic troubleshooting, fault finding, and link restoration.
- Experience with fibre splicing and fibre optic network testing.
- Ability to read and interpret OTDR traces and fibre test results.
- Understanding of ISP/OSP fibre infrastructure and network documentation.
- Experience working independently on customer sites with minimal supervision.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Desirable Experience
- Previous experience supporting data centre or large telecom infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of high-power laser testing procedures.
- Experience with ribbon fibre installations and connector systems.
- Familiarity with structured cabling and mission-critical network environments.
Ideal Background
We'd love to hear from the following professionals:
- Fiber Engineer
- OTDR Technician
- Fiber Test Technician
- Fiber Optic Technician
- Fiber Testing Engineer
- Data Centre Fiber Technician
- Network Field Engineer
- Telecom Field Engineer
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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