Network Operator - NISSC - CMSFS

Amentum•Colorado Springs, CO

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Our NORAD Operations Group, selected by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division, supports the Operations, Maintenance, and Sustainment (OM&S) of critical mission systems for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NCMC). This support is provided through the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II). Since 2020, NISSC II has provided operations, maintenance, and sustainment of current and legacy systems for the surveillance and cataloging of manmade objects in space, mitigation of orbital conflicts, threat warnings and control from airborne, land-based, and space-based systems for threat activities, operations and maintenance of classified communications, and software development and integration. NISSC II supports classified communications and processing for Command and Control (C2) capability and legacy space C2 systems located at Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station (CMSFS), Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB), Offutt Air Force Base, Vandenberg Space Force Base, and numerous sensor and forward operator sites globally. The Network Operator specifically supports NORAD on the ITW/AA and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II).

Requirements

Must have an active Top Secret with SCI Eligibility
DoD IAT Level II or higher certification
6 months or more of directly related experience.
1 year or more of general work history.
Experience with the following technologies: OSI, TCP/IP, and various layer 2 protocols.
Experience with platforms such as Radius and/or TACACS.
Experience with Juniper and RedHat Linux.
Experience with data center/long-haul transportation and serial data interfaces, cat-X, fiber, and Long-Haul Transport mechanisms.

Nice To Haves

Have Juniper OS certification.
Experience with Linux/UNIX skills.
Experience with Juniper products including routers, switches, and Circuit to Packet (CTP) equipment.
Experience with Automated Ticketing Systems (i.e., Remedy/ServiceNow).
Experience with digital signal flow.
Experience with transport circuit drawings/records.
Knowledge with network transport equipment in a large Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) NOC and DISA processes and procedures.
Knowledge of using specialized test equipment (i.e., Oscilloscope, Hardware Protocol Analyzer, Bit Error Rate Test equipment, etc.)
Experience prioritizing and managing workloads.
Have clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Review and analyze system, trunk, circuit, and equipment performance.
Coordinate and assist in troubleshooting, isolating, repairing, and correcting network systems and circuit errors.
Create and update outage tickets and shift logs.
When necessary, brief leadership of circuit/equipment status.
Daily Cryptographic loads to equipment (i.e., KIV-7Ms, KG-175xs, KG-250/5s, and KG-350s, etc.) and associated COMSEC paperwork.
Analyze problems and conduct effective fault diagnosis and system recovery.
Handle COMSEC materials daily.
Use of electronics and network principles.