Location: Patuxent River, MD

Status: Contingent on client funding and availability.

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active Top Secret clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be open to random CI polygraph.

Background:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Deployment Engineer to join our team in providing support to a large enterprise IT system.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinate with customer sites to plan, schedule, and accomplish site deployments

• Conduct site surveys; assess and document current site network configuration and user requirements

• Travel to customer sites and perform deployment activities to include: site surveys, installing hardware, device configurations, and troubleshooting

• Create and implement router and switch configurations

• Configure computers, communications devices, and peripheral equipment

• Manage and maintain system configuration including documentation, installation, planning, configuration and evaluation of existing and new hardware

• Provide support to IT systems which includes day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for client/server/storage/network devices

• Troubleshoot networking, routing and inter connectivity issues, including network device configuration

• Coordinate inventory, hardware orders, equipment movement, and shipment of equipment

• Maintain awareness of security directives, orders, standards, plans and procedures

• Create and maintain Visio network diagrams

• Draft and submit recommended change request proposals

• Ensure the architecture and design of the customer’s information systems are functional and secure

• Provide recommendations to enhance and improve the network and performance

Required Qualifications:

• DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 certification required (CCNA, GICSP, GSEC, Sec , CND or SSCP)

• DoD 8570 computing environment certification within 6 months of hire. Cisco or Microsoft certification

• Knowledge and experience providing network infrastructure installation, configuration, and testing

• Outstanding customer relationship management skills

• Demonstrated ability to focus through difficult problems to provide solutions

• Ability to operate under minimal supervision

• Must be willing to travel within the U.S. up to 40% and requires occasional (as needed) 5-10% OCONUS travel

• Valid US Passport and Driver's License required

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in the following areas: hardware/software security, router and switch communications protocols, network management, encryption techniques, firewall rule definition and authentication technologies

• Working knowledge of communication security (COMSEC) policies and integration

Essential Job Functions:

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 75%

• Must be able to lift at least 40 lbs.

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office

• The person in this position will need to be able to operate a computer and other office productivity devices

Education Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering

Years of Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of related experience. A degree can be substituted with 4 years of additional experience

Position Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

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