Telecommunications Specialist

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Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Telecommunications Specialist to join our team! In this role you will get to perform integrated, multidisciplinary assessments that assess survivability of critical U.S. Air Force mission systems, infrastructures, and assets.

The Air Force Mission Assurance Assessment Team requires highly specialized technical, analytical, and investigative support services to develop and conduct comprehensive assessments of an Installation and/or Facility.

This challenging and exciting work will provide you with the opportunity to travel CONUS and OCONUS to the most important Air Force systems and critical infrastructure to ensure the survivability of any threat or attack. This is an exciting opportunity to experience traveling to destinations around the world and protecting mission critical infrastructure.

• Reviews and assesses the telecommunications infrastructure that supports the installation protection programs; customer’s missions and supporting facilities to include equipment and routing.
• Identify all aspects of communications‑related vulnerabilities, impacts of communications on mission execution capability, and provide recommendations to mitigate or eliminate identified vulnerabilities.
• Assess communications infrastructure that support installation voice, data, video, radio, electronic security, and industrial control systems/networks.
• Identify threats/hazards that could affect the mission’s communications architecture and using this data to assess the vulnerability and risk to these assets.
• Perform single‑point critical node analysis of an installation’s telecommunications, other communications systems, and computer networks including supporting infrastructure (security, power, heating‑ventilation‑air conditioning, fuel, fire protection, etc.). Provide recommendations to remediate or mitigate system vulnerabilities due to terrorist, manmade, and natural incidents.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on secure and/or non‑secure high‑speed digital data transmission, government satellite services, high‑frequency radio, long‑haul military and commercial radio, telephone, voice frequency circuitry, wireless, facsimile, video, and computer network inter‑switch trunks.
• Evaluate and make recommendations for DoD installations on achievable means of enhancing the communications networks and/or systems to ensure local distribution networks and supporting off‑site commercial facilities have the capacity, survivability, reliability, and security to support the mission.
• Review Communication plans, Defense Continuity Plans, and other associated plans and provide feedback to improve the documents.
• Prepare Assessment Team Reports based upon vulnerabilities observed during the assessment.
• Conduct other assessments defined by the Subject Matter Expert Benchmark matrix.

• Possess minimum 5 years, or Bachelor’s degree and 2 years, operational experience in the military, other Federal Government, or comparable civilian position in Cyberspace operations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field; operational experience can serve as a substitute for degree requirement.
• Possess a thorough understanding of the Department of Defense Information Networks (DoDIN).
• Work experience as a network administrator, IT management/consulting, assessing IT, or installation of IT‑related systems.
• In‑depth knowledge of newest information technology threats.
• Knowledge of Information Assurance, Mission Assurance levels associated with DoD IT Systems.
• Understanding of the Cyber Protection Conditions.
• Knowledge of Cybersecurity practices and threats.
• Knowledge of the DoD Risk Management Framework.
• Ability to evaluate…