Technical Engineer

Ashburn Consulting • Purcellville, VA

5d • $105,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Provide hands-on network, RF, and telecommunications engineering support for FEMA CCD continuity-communications programs from the Mount Weather EOC primary duty station. This position uses the same contractual Technical Engineer II baseline as the FEMA Headquarters seats. Commdex has identified ICCT/Cisco-core work as an anticipated sourcing emphasis, not as a separate FEMA qualification.

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 commute reliably to Mount Weather EOC in Bluemont, Virginia and support controlled-site access, equipment-room/field work, exercises, outages, and scheduled after-hours maintenance.

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.
• Prior Mount Weather or comparable restricted-site experience and hands-on Cisco core/network refresh or migration experience.

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.
• As an anticipated prime-directed emphasis, support ICCT-related Cisco core/network discovery, staging, migration, testing, rollback, and post-change validation when assigned; this does not replace the common FEMA technical scope.

Benefits

• Active final Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility; current TS/SCI strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant work experience may substitute

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED