Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fleet Data Centers designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data center campuses for cloud and AI infrastructure customers. The company is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead the architecture, design, standards, and technical strategy for secure, resilient, and scalable network infrastructure across mission-critical campuses, including fiber, structured cabling, carrier connectivity, and OT networks.
Responsibilities
- Design scalable network architectures supporting hyperscale campus operations
- Develop standards for fiber infrastructure, structured cabling, OT networks, and carrier connectivity
- Design inside-plant (ISP) and outside-plant (OSP) fiber systems with redundancy and future capacity in mind
- Serve as Fleet's technical SME for network and fiber infrastructure
- Establish engineering standards, documentation, and best practices across the organization
- Review engineering packages, vendor designs, and construction documents
- Support commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and operational readiness
- Partner with customers to translate connectivity requirements into scalable design standards
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to reliability, performance, and scalability
- Lead technical evaluations, RFPs, vendor selection, and carrier relationships
- Support budgeting, lifecycle cost analysis, procurement, and project execution
Skills
- * 10+ years in network engineering, telecommunications, fiber infrastructure, or mission-critical environments
- * Experience designing and deploying large-scale network infrastructure
- * Expertise in fiber infrastructure, structured cabling, and carrier connectivity
- * Experience supporting projects through design, construction, commissioning, and operations
- * Background serving as a Principal Engineer, Technical Lead, or Subject Matter Expert
- * Fiber optic systems, structured cabling, and network architecture
- * DWDM, CWDM, optical transport technologies
- * Routing, switching, and carrier networking
- * OT networks including IoT, BMS, and EPMS
- * AutoCAD, Visio, GIS, and infrastructure design tools
- * Network testing, validation, troubleshooting, and commissioning
- * Industry standards including ANSI/TIA, IEEE, ITU-T, ISO/IEC, BICSI, NEC, and NFPA
- * Up to 25% travel to Fleet campuses and project sites
- * Data center, cloud, or other critical infrastructure experience strongly preferred
Benefits
- 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
- A 401K program
- Standard paid holidays
- Unlimited PTO
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