SATCOM Network Engineer III

RISA•Mount Weather, VA

2d•$99,000 - $108,000•Onsite

About The Position

RISA is hiring a SATCOM Network Engineer to engineer and sustain an Intelligence Community customer's WAN, LAN, and campus networks across multiple security domains. This one runs the full RF chain - VSAT and fixed ground stations, modems, bandwidth management - alongside the routed enterprise behind it. You work with little direction, and you will talk to the owner here, not a recruiting queue.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI with CI polygraph.
Bachelor's degree in a field applicable to the position plus 6 years of relevant experience. Equivalents accepted - Master's plus 4, Associate's plus 8, or High School diploma/GED plus 10.
8+ years in network and transport technologies, and 8+ years on large-scale enterprise or global networks.
Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) and larger fixed ground station systems across SCPC, TDMA, and other industry-standard SATCOM configurations.
IP satellite modems interfacing with bandwidth management systems such as iDirect and Comtech VMS.
Juniper switches and routers, cryptographic devices, VPN and VPN client, and Starshield.
OSPF, BGP, MPLS, and multicast.
IP services supporting NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS - IPv4, VPN, multicast, QoS, SDN, SNMP, VoIP, VTC.
Network analysis tooling - Forward Networks, HP Network Node Manager, or Riverbed.
DoD Architecture Framework and related DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions.
Ability to work independently with little direction, and to write and brief at the executive level.

Nice To Haves

CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or ITIL v3 Foundations.
JNCIA, or Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCDP/CCVP.

Responsibilities

Install, maintain, and troubleshoot satellite communications equipment.
Evaluate, configure, test, and sustain every element of the RF transmit and receive chain.
Coordinate maintenance, monitoring, and installation across multi-domain WAN/LAN environments.
Troubleshoot network media and components; monitor the health and performance of the network.
Research and implement enterprise-wide solutions and enhancements against mission objectives.
Develop test plans and configuration documentation for customer approval before implementation.
Run traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization to hold performance and availability objectives.
Perform site surveys for new installations and technology refresh; maintain architecture diagrams.
Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.