RF/Satellite Transmission Engineer

Description

Seeking a career with a sense of purpose, work life balance, and growth opportunities ... There's a place for you at Leidos! At Leidos, we are committed to making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. You would be a valued member of global team providing services across civil, defense, health, and intelligence business lines. At Leidos, team member career development, flexibility, and well-being are priority and is supported by consistent leadership engagement, an experienced human relations staff, and numerous employee support programs.

Use your unique talents and make an immediate impact...

The Leidos Defense group has an opening for a highly motivated individual. The RF Satellite Engineer position at MacDill AFB, FL supports the Global Solutions Management-Operations II (GSM-O II), Joint Communications Support Element (JCSE). The JCSE team provides en-route, early entry, scalable C4 support to Regional Combatant Commands, Special Operations Command, and other agencies. In this role, you will be responsible for new capability requirements and design, system assessments, and providing hands-on engineering support. Key elements of this position include: Providing SATCOM support with configuring and troubleshooting SATCOM modems, terminals, and RF waveform. Identifying if issues are related atmospheric anomalies or weather conditions. Providing operational support, coordination and contact with satellite support centers and controllers for both commercial and military SATCOM.

Responsibilities include:

• Provision/monitor/de-activate SATCOM missions

• Provision, monitor, configure, troubleshoot, upgrade, and maintain routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection sensors (IDS), SATCOM modems, virtual environments, servers, VoIP gateways/managers/SBC, UCS video, NSA Type 1 High Assurance IP Encryptor (HAIPE), and network functional virtual (NFV) devices.

• Troubleshoot routing protocols and end-to-end system performance from the customer terminal/system though to services required.

• Willingness to cross train and support multiple technologies in an operational environment including Network, Voice, VDI/Virtualization.

• Support the system adherence to industry standards, DOD standards, DOD policies, DOD instructions, DOD directives, cybersecurity policies, and best commercial practices.

• Utilize ticketing systems for detailed documentation of outages and network change activities.

• Provide technical problem resolution and detailed documentation for a wide range of network infrastructure problems or anomalies.

• This position requires flexibility to support 24x7 Network Operations including 12 hour shifts as required.

Minimum Qualifications to be considered for the job:

• Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (CompTIA Security+ce, Security, CySA+, etc.)

• Education: HS Diploma and 5+ years of experience

• Clearance: Secret

Intrigued?... There's more! Leidos understands that there are many factors that contribute to a career decision, but pay and benefits are fundamental factors.

Compensation: Very competitive, with a robust rewards and recognition program

Health and well-being: Comprehensive coverage with many programs (ex. HSA, FSA, Dental, Vision, 24/7 EAP) to ensure the well-being of you, eligible family members, and registered domestic partners.

Income Protection: Programs to help navigate life events: Company-provided Term Basic Life, Group Universal Life, Optional Dependent Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, and Business travel accident

Leave: Leidos is committed to work life balance, with competitive leave options.

Retirement: Leidos 401k plan, with company match determined by fringe benefit package

Employee Stock Purchase plan: 10% discount for all enrollees

Family Benefits: Center-based and in home back-up childcare, free access to Sittercity, and Dependent (Daycare) Flexible Spending Accounts

The Leidos values are integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. It's under these values that we feel we are able to provide a safe work environment where we foster equality, growth, and creativity. If you feel Leidos is a fit you and can meet your needs, please submit your application and join our team in our commitment to excellence.

GSMO

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.