TS/SCI Network & RF Engineer — Government Ops

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

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.