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Description

Avint, LLC is seeking a highly skilled, motivated, and mission-driven Principal Communications Operator/Technician to join our elite team supporting one of the Air Force’s most critical missions. If you’re passionate about advanced communications systems, hands-on technical challenges, and making an impact that directly strengthens national defense, you’ll thrive here.

This is a unique opportunity to work at the leading edge of cyberspace operations, secure communications, and cutting-edge technology platforms.

**This position is 100% on-site at Hanscom AFB, MA**

**This position requires an ACTIVE DoD Top Secret Clearance**

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 

Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Establishing cyber tactics, techniques, and procedure

• 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
• 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

Desired Qualifications:

• Network+ and Security+ certifications are highly desirable
• CCNA and CISSP certifications are desirable

Benefits

Joining Avint is a win-win proposition! You will feel the personal touch of a small business and receive BIG business benefits, from competitive salaries, full health insurance, generous time off, and observation of federal holidays. Additionally, we encourage every Avint employee to further their professional development. To help you achieve your goals, we offer reimbursement for courses, exams, and tuition. Interested in a class, conference, program, or degree? Avint will invest in YOU and your professional development! Salary Range $147,000 - $159,000.