Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

MAINSAIL Group is in search of a Principal Communications Operator/Technician, with onsite location at Hanscom AFB, in Bedford, MA. This position is a DoD contractor to support the Air and Space Force initiative leveraging industry best practices to provide a standardized, innovative and agile information technology service across the Department of the Air Force.

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.

Company Description

MAINSAIL Group is located in Boston, MA and Washington, DC. We leverage our extensive operational expertise and technical knowledge to provide best-in-class solutions to our customers. Our specialized services support offices across the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs delivering Program Management, Software Development, Systems Engineering, C4ISR Systems Acquisition, Strategic Planning, Agile methodologies and more.

MAINSAIL Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of any legally protected characteristic including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, medical condition, military veteran status or on the basis of physical handicap which, with reasonable accommodation, render the application to satisfactorily perform the job available.

Company Description

MAINSAIL Group is located in Boston, MA and Washington, DC. We leverage our extensive operational expertise and technical knowledge to provide best-in-class solutions to our customers. Our specialized services support offices across the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs delivering Program Management, Software Development, Systems Engineering, C4ISR Systems Acquisition, Strategic Planning, Agile methodologies and more.\r\n\r\nMAINSAIL Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of any legally protected characteristic including, but not limited to, race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, medical condition, military veteran status or on the basis of physical handicap which, with reasonable accommodation, render the application to satisfactorily perform the job available.

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