Technical Engineer

Ashburn Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashburn Consulting, based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, seeks a hands-on network/telecommunications engineer to support FEMA CCD continuity-communications programs from FEMA Headquarters. The role mirrors the Mount Weather baseline but location changes.

Required are Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, CCNA, and 3–5 years in telecom/RF fields. Expect travel to FEMA facilities and multi-day deployments as needed.

Qualifications

• Active final Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and DHS suitability processing.
• Current CCNA certification.
• 3–5 years of hands-on telecommunications, network, RF, field-engineering, or related experience.
• Substantial experience with routers, switches, servers, telecommunications systems, and Carrier Ethernet transport.

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 related interfaces.
• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, fault isolate, and restore HF radio, satellite, VHF/UHF land-mobile radio, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, telephone, satellite telephone, FAX, and encrypted communications.
• Configure, install, optimize, repair, or replace RF equipment, base stations, antennas, switching/control equipment, and encryption devices.
• Engineer, terminate, test, and document RF, coaxial, fiber, baseband-audio, TTL, serial cabling with engineering drawings.
• Configure and operate test equipment including spectrum analyzers, watt meters, and RF monitors.
• Support architecture, design, requirements, integration, testing, and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with DHS EA, TRM Standards, and IPv6 requirements.

Skills

CCNA

Security clearance

RF transmission systems

Network design

Carrier Ethernet

Cisco networking

Troubleshooting

Tools

Cisco routers

Cisco switches

Servers

Job description

• Compensation: USD 115000 - USD 135000 - yearly

Company Description

Ashburn Consulting, a Small Business based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, specializes in providing network and network security solutions in complex environments to a select set of government and business clients. The company, an established leader in its field, is composed of an elite team of engineers and business consultants, each of whom is recognized and highly regarded within the network and security communities.

Job Description

Provide hands-on network, RF, and telecommunications engineering support for FEMA CCD continuity-communications programs from the FEMA Headquarters primary duty station. This position uses the same contractual Technical Engineer II baseline as the Mount Weather seats; the location changes, not the required technical scope.

Primary 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.

Qualifications

• 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/V