You are a proactive, knowledgeable SATCOM Engineer capable of assisting with design, plans, installation, integration and maintenance of the backbone core-area tactical and strategic communications networks. You’re also a self-starter dedicated to accomplishing program requirements working well independently and also excel at working with a team to achieve required objectives. Your knowledge and understanding of current/future force tactical and strategic military communications networks, as well as the architecture, protocols, security, network management and physics underlying these systems will assist with the development, implementation and maintenance support of the Army tactical network architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Develop network architecture for adjacent, higher and lower units, as well as for allied nations, other government agencies and commercial service interfaces.
- Gather mission needs statements, operational requirements Capability Development Documents (ORCDD), and Capability Production Documents (CPD) for Army’s tactical communications systems and translate requirements into technical solutions that are standards-based and cost efficient.
- Responsible for the engineering design, development, integration, installation, operation and maintenance of the Tactical Network.
- Leads and facilitates technical discussions with internal and external organizations.
- Support technical tasks in the integration of Data/Voice/Video in the Tactical Network, engineering and technical documentation and assistance in the development of technical requirements, specifications, plans and reports, software/hardware engineering, preparation of independent assessments, systems engineering, technical expertise at fielding locations, test and evaluation, architectural/interoperability support, and quality engineering.
- Develop equipment and network configurations and products and provide technical support in Tactical Network labs.
- Support technology insertion testing relative to emerging Tactical Network requirements and capabilities.
- Provide technical expertise at field locations as needed.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of relevant SATCOM Systems/Network engineering experience.
- Or a High School Diploma/GED, and at least 14 years of SATCOM Systems/Network engineering experience.
- Must have an Active Secret US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to maintain a Secret Clearance.
- Familiarity with commercial/tactical communications equipment used in military communications architecture.
Preferred Qualifications:
- B.S. Degree in engineering or technical related field.
- Knowledge of Army organization structure and Unit Task Organization concepts.
- Experience with/in/as a(n) Army tactical networks.
- Knowledge of Converged Ethernet Over IP (EOIP) network.
- Knowledge of Voice over IP (VoIP) protocols.
- Knowledge of virtualization and storage technologies from VMware, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, Dell, HP and others.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with routing protocols such as, but not limited to, border gateway protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First Version 2 and Version 3 (OSPFv2 and OSPFv3) and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
- Extensive knowledge and experience with SATCOM Waveforms including, but not limited to, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Network Centric Waveform (NCW)
- Extensive knowledge and experience with iDirect capabilities.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with integration of terrestrial networking and SATCOM.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with the Tactical Network architecture and its concepts including Colorless Core.
- Experience with WAN Acceleration products such as Riverbed Steelhead and Citrix WAN Scaler.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Firewall capabilities and products such as Cisco ASA, Firepower and Palo Alto products.
Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
