SATCOM Network Engineer III

RISA is hiring a SATCOM Network Engineer to engineer and sustain an Intelligence Community customer’s WAN, LAN, and campus networks across multiple security domains. This one runs the full RF chain - VSAT and fixed ground stations, modems, bandwidth management - alongside the routed enterprise behind it. You work with little direction, and you will talk to the owner here, not a recruiting queue.

What You Will Do

• Install, maintain, and troubleshoot satellite communications equipment.
• Evaluate, configure, test, and sustain every element of the RF transmit and receive chain.
• Coordinate maintenance, monitoring, and installation across multi-domain WAN/LAN environments.
• Troubleshoot network media and components; monitor the health and performance of the network.
• Research and implement enterprise-wide solutions and enhancements against mission objectives.
• Develop test plans and configuration documentation for customer approval before implementation.
• Run traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization to hold performance and availability objectives.
• Perform site surveys for new installations and technology refresh; maintain architecture diagrams.
• Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.

• Education and experience, per the contract labor category criteria: Bachelor’s degree in a field applicable to the position plus 6 years of relevant experience. Equivalents accepted - Master’s plus 4, Associate’s plus 8, or High School diploma/GED plus 10.
• 8+ years in network and transport technologies, and 8+ years on large-scale enterprise or global networks.
• Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) and larger fixed ground station systems across SCPC, TDMA, and other industry-standard SATCOM configurations.
• IP satellite modems interfacing with bandwidth management systems such as iDirect and Comtech VMS.
• Juniper switches and routers, cryptographic devices, VPN and VPN client, and Starshield.
• OSPF, BGP, MPLS, and multicast.
• IP services supporting NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS - IPv4, VPN, multicast, QoS, SDN, SNMP, VoIP, VTC.
• Network analysis tooling - Forward Networks, HP Network Node Manager, or Riverbed.
• DoD Architecture Framework and related DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions.
• Ability to work independently with little direction, and to write and brief at the executive level.

Nice to Have

• CompTIA Security+, CISSP, or ITIL v3 Foundations.
• JNCIA, or Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCDP/CCVP.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) and Roth; Paid Time Off; and 11 paid Federal Holidays.

RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Upon receiving an offer of employment, all applicants will be required to do a background check, including a criminal record check and employment/education verification.

Rolston Information Systems Assurance (RISA) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that has supported federal defense and intelligence cybersecurity missions for more than seventeen years. We are small on purpose: direct access to leadership, a real say in how the work gets done, and none of the layers that slow large primes down.