Senior Network Analyst

Senior Network Analyst

Reston, VA- Full Time

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Senior Network Analyst to join our team in Reston, VA. You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team who provides analytical support. The Network Analyst team is comprised of analysts who address very distinct areas of telecommunications.The successful candidate is likely to be a subject matter expert in one of the following:

Telecom and data transport and switching engineering in support of traditional telcos

Data center network engineering in support of intra-and inter-data center transport

Network architect or cellular network engineering for 3G, 4G, or 5G to include core network (EPC) and radio network engineering

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to provide timely and accurate network analysis regarding the logical and physical routes of key telecommunications networks

Collaborate with team members and other organizations to evaluate the role and value of potential network operations

Display a mastery of network operations, principles, and best practices

Creatively employ a mastery of the telecom domain to support the multidisciplinary teams in providing direct mapping and graphics inputs into a modeling tool

Performing analysis on wireless and wireline circuit-switched and packet-switched

networks

Perform analysis on transmission protocols

Perform analysis on network technologies

Present analysis to a range of technical and nontechnical audiences

Serve as a focal point for tracking and understanding emerging technologies

Maintain appropriate technical training to ensure skills are kept current with evolving technology

Perform other duties as assigned at the direction of project management

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum of 6 years of experience in one of the following roles:

A. Facility Engineer or Network Planner (TDM and/or Data)

B. Large scale networking engineering across multiple packet fabrics, such as Google B4

C. Core network engineer, or radio network engineer with experience in 3G, 4G, and/or 5G engineering

Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline, e.g. Computer Science, Cyber Security, Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics. Other STEM majors with strong analytic and technical acumen are acceptable.

Experience with telecommunications networks, providing physical and logical network routes to answer strategic requirements

Demonstrated knowledge of Network Management Systems (NMS), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), or Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Demonstrated knowledge of network elements to include: switches, routers, multiplexers and wireless wireline transport infrastructure

Demonstrated analytical skills

Demonstrated understanding of network technologies (identify specific technologies)

Demonstrated understanding of network protocols (identify specific technologies)

Demonstrated understanding of networking systems and equipment (identify specific technologies)

Demonstrated advanced knowledge of, or experience with, one ore more of the following:

Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

Data networks (IP, MPLS, traffic engineering, OpenFlow)

communications networks

VOIP Networks, Softswitch technology, or Session Border Controllers (SBCs)

Fiber optic cable characteristics, engineering, installation and maintenance

RF-related technologies (cellular, microwave, millimeter wave, VSAT)

Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology

LOCATION: Reston, VA

HOURS: Traditional business hours with a high degree of flexibility to meet team needs

TRAVEL: Non required, potential opportunities if desirable

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.