Technical Engineer

Ashburn Consulting•Washington, DC

5d•$115,000 - $135,000•Onsite

About The Position

Ashburn Consulting is seeking a Technical Engineer to provide hands-on network, RF, and telecommunications engineering support for FEMA CCD continuity-communications programs. This role is based at the FEMA Headquarters primary duty station and requires the same technical scope as similar positions at other locations. The company specializes in network and network security solutions for government and business clients, and is known as a leader in its field with an elite team of engineers and consultants.

Requirements

Active final Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; willingness to undergo FSO verification and DHS suitability processing.
Current Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification, verifiable at candidate submission.
Three to five years of related hands-on telecommunications, network, RF, field-engineering, systems-integration, or closely related experience.
Substantial experience with routers, switches, servers, telecommunications systems, network-infrastructure design, and Carrier Ethernet transport.
Hands-on RF transmission-system experience, including HF/VHF/UHF or comparable radio systems, secure/non-secure communications, troubleshooting, cabling, test equipment, schematics, and technical documentation.
Ability to perform installation, configuration, integration, testing, fault isolation, restoration, lifecycle/configuration-management, and documentation duties in controlled production environments.
U.S. citizenship and ability to comply with classified-facility, badging, nondisclosure, information-protection, and site-access requirements.
Ability to report to the FEMA Headquarters primary duty station and support multi-day field assignments when directed.

Nice To Haves

Current CCNP or CCIE in addition to a verifiable current CCNA.
Prior FEMA, DHS, DoD, continuity-of-government, public-safety, emergency-management, or classified-program experience.
Deep HF-ALE, VHF/UHF LMR, SATCOM, COMSEC/Type I encryption, antenna, repeater, field-service, and emergency-communications experience.
Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, or ASR; high-availability design; core, campus, or data-center refresh/migration; network-management; firewall; and wireless experience.
DHS SELC, formal configuration/change management, DHS EA/TRM, IPv6, technology evaluation, integration, UAT, performance testing, and operational-readiness experience.
Military communications/RF maintenance background, FCC General Radiotelephone Operator License, or amateur-radio license.
Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant work experience may substitute.

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, research, develop, test, implement, optimize, enhance, operate, and maintain terrestrial and wireless telecommunications systems and networks.
Implement and troubleshoot Carrier Ethernet transport; configure and support Cisco routers, switches, servers, network services, and associated telecommunications-system interfaces.
Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, fault isolate, and restore non-secure and secure HF radio, satellite, VHF/UHF land-mobile radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, telephone, satellite telephone, FAX, and related communications capabilities, including Type I encrypted operations.
Configure, install, optimize, repair, or replace RF equipment, base stations, repeaters, duplexers, power components, antennas, switching/control equipment, and encryption devices down to the lowest replaceable unit as directed.
Engineer, fabricate, terminate, test, and document RF, coaxial, fiber, baseband-audio, TTL, serial, CAT3/CAT5, and associated communications cabling using applicable connectors and engineering drawings.
Configure and operate LMR service monitors, spectrum analyzers, watt meters, antenna analyzers, volt-ohm meters, power/signal monitors, cable tools, and related network/RF test equipment.
Support architecture, design, requirements, prototype evaluation, integration, user-acceptance and performance testing, lifecycle/configuration management, LAN monitoring, IT security, change control, and technical documentation.
Ensure solutions, hardware, software, data exchanges, and technical artifacts comply with DHS Enterprise Architecture, TRM Standards and Products Profile, data-management review, and IPv6 requirements.
Prepare configurations, schematics, drawings, bills of material, implementation and rollback plans, test plans/results, change records, SOPs, operator training, and as-built documentation.
Support site surveys, installations, de-installations, exercises, testing, training, and restoration at FEMA facilities, State EOCs, U.S. territories, and other directed locations, including multi-day travel and after-hours maintenance when required.