Technical Engineer

Ashburn Consulting

$80K — $95K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active final Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility.
  • Current CCNA certification, verifiable upon submission.
  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience in network engineering or telecom.
  • Experience with Cisco routers, switches, and networks.
  • Ability to read technical diagrams and maintain documentation.
  • Willingness to work on-site in Bluemont, Virginia and support after-hours needs.

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on engineering support for Cisco network infrastructure at Mount Weather EOC.
  • Install, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco networking and telecommunications systems.
  • Perform lifecycle management activities, updating configurations and documentation.
  • Operate and maintain secure communications equipment and IP transport solutions.
  • Use vendor tools and test equipment for fault isolation and service restoration.
  • Support various testing and validation activities for network readiness.
  • Contribute to engineering analysis and assist with system evaluations.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a high-security federal environment.
  • Engagement in critical infrastructure support projects.
  • Potential for working alongside seasoned professionals in the field.
  • Involvement in modernizing essential communication systems.
  • Access to further training and certification opportunities.
Full Job Description
Provide on-site, hands-on engineering, installation, configuration, integration, testing, maintenance, and restoration support for continuity-communications and associated Cisco network infrastructure at Mount Weather EOC. The anticipated focus communicated by the prime includes ICCT-related Cisco core/network work, together with lifecycle, configuration-management, operational-readiness, and field-support responsibilities under the FEMA SOW. • Install, configure, test, troubleshoot, optimize, maintain, and document Cisco routing, switching, network services, attached servers, and telecommunications-system interfaces. • Support anticipated ICCT-related Cisco core/network modernization activities at Mount Weather, including discovery, site validation, configuration development, staging, implementation, migration, testing, rollback planning, and post-change validation as directed. • Perform lifecycle and configuration-management activities, maintain approved baselines, prepare change requests and implementation plans, and update diagrams, port maps, inventory, test results, maintenance logs, and operating procedures. • Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, repair, or replace secure and non-secure communications equipment and associated IP transport, potentially including HF, VHF/UHF LMR, SATCOM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, telephone, satellite telephone, fax, antennas, repeaters, and control equipment. • Use approved vendor configuration/programming tools and network, RF, and electronic test equipment to isolate faults and restore service. • Support integration, prototype, user-acceptance, performance, operational-readiness, continuity, and restoration testing. • Provide technical input to engineering analyses, bills of material, acquisition documentation, DHS EA/TRM and IPv6 compliance artifacts, vulnerability remediation, and technology evaluations. • Support exercises, deployments, training, site surveys, after-hours changes, and incident restoration at Mount Weather and other directed sites. Qualifications • Active final Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility; willingness to undergo FSO verification and DHS suitability processing. • Current CCNA certification, verifiable at the time of candidate submission. • Three to five years of hands-on network, telecommunications, field engineering, RF/SATCOM, systems-integration, or closely related experience. • Demonstrated experience installing, configuring, testing, and troubleshooting Cisco routers, switches, networks, or associated infrastructure. • Ability to read technical diagrams and schematics; maintain accurate configurations, change records, test results, and maintenance documentation. • Ability to work full-time on site at Mount Weather EOC in Bluemont, Virginia and support scheduled after-hours changes, exercises, outages, or travel when required. • U.S. citizenship and ability to comply with classified-facility, badging, nondisclosure, and information-protection requirements. Preferred Qualifications • Current CCNP or CCIE in addition to a verifiable current CCNA. • Cisco core refresh, data-center or campus-network migration, Catalyst/Nexus/ISR/ASR, high availability, routing, switching, network-management, cabling, and implementation experience. • Prior Mount Weather, FEMA, DHS, DoD, continuity-of-government, emergency-management, public-safety, or other classified-site experience. • ICCT or comparable integrated continuity-communications experience. • HF-ALE, HF/VHF/UHF LMR, SATCOM, antennas, repeaters, encryption devices, secure voice, RF test equipment, cable fabrication, or field-service experience. • DHS SELC, configuration/change management, DHS EA/TRM, IPv6, technical evaluation, test-and-evaluation, or operational-readiness experience. Additional Information • Active final Top Secret clearance with current SCI eligibility; current TS/SCI strongly preferred • Bachelor's degree preferred; relevant work experience may substitute

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