What are the responsibilities and job description for the Communications Operator/Technician Principal, DoD Contract position at MAINSAIL Group?
Description
MAINSAIL Group is in search of a Communications Operator/Technician Principal, to join the Base Infrastructure Modernization Team, located at Hanscom AFB, in Bedford, Massachusetts. This position supports the United States Air Force Cyber and Networks Directorate at Hanscom AFB, MA
Minimum Education/Experience Requirements:
- Must be a US citizen.
- Must have a minimum of a top-secret security clearance.
- Experience with electronic and network principles, information assurance, telephony, copper and fiber-optic transmission principles, cryptographic techniques, network system installation practices, project and circuit diagram interpretation, test equipment, special tools, and management practices.
- Must have knowledge of electricity and radio theory, including transistors, solid-state components, and digital techniques applying to ground RF communications and related equipment maintenance; and interpretation of management information data, technical orders, blueprints, wiring diagrams, and schematic drawings.
- Network and Security certifications are highly desirable. CCNA and CISSP certifications are desirable.
- Degree (BA/BS) and 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed...
- or an AA/AS degree and 15 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed.
The Day to Day:
- Advise and support activities for installing, maintaining, repairing, overhauling, deploying, and modifying cyberspace systems and equipment platforms, to include voice, data, video client devices, network infrastructure systems, radio, satellite, intrusion detection, space systems, telemetry, microwave, and cryptographic.
- Ensure cyber and communication equipment and components meet installation practices, technical orders, and accepted commercial installation specifications.
- Apply communications security program expertise to include physical, cryptographic, transmission, and emission security.
- Support communication system implementation and project installation, and ensures architecture, configuration, and integration conformity.
- Serve as advisor for facility design, platform IT programs installation, minor construction planning, and coordinates with base communications systems as necessary.
- Determine adequacy and correctness of project packages and amendments for installation and integration of communication systems.
- Conduct site and equipment surveys and validates equipment systems interface.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Job Experience:
Experience with evaluating operational readiness of communications equipment, network devices, sensors, intrusion detection, and related support equipment, to include: troubleshooting and repairing standard voice, data, and video network infrastructure systems, IP detection systems and cryptographic equipment; maintaining, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing voice and network systems equipment and circuits utilizing tools and test equipment; sustaining, troubleshooting, and repairing standard radio frequency wireless, line-of-sight, beyond line-of-sight, wideband, and ground-based satellite and encryption transmission devices in a fixed and deployed environment; and establishing cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Should also have experience coordinating request for service orders, reviewing, recommending, and implementing changes to communications-computer systems installations records (CSIR), technical data, engineering drawings, and equipment wiring diagrams, and updating and verifying entries on cyber system, facility, maintenance, and inspection records.