Telecommunications Engineer

Job ID: 2504972

Location: AURORA, CO, US

Date Posted: 2025-04-23

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Systems Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

SAIC is seeking a long-haul fiber Telecommunications Engineer in Aurora, CO area to support a government customer. The successful candidate will support an array of high-speed engineering design and implementation efforts, as well as program office support on behalf of this customer. Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with current polygraph is required to start and must be maintained. Targeted salary is $150,0001- $160,000.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

The successful candidate must be able to:

• Provide strategic systems engineering support to ensure the delivery of bandwidth for a service infrastructure architecture.
• Define circuit specifications and employ test methodology industry best practices to ensure a satisfactory delivery of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layer 1 and 2 transport solutions.
• Perform as a technical representative with internal and external customers.
• Support design reviews, to include development of technical analysis of alternatives to meet customer needs.
• Conduct technical risk assessments of proposed and deployed architectures in search of mitigations that will minimize the risk of service outages.
• Perform requirements analysis, schedule review, and cost estimation for long-haul bandwidth service requests.
• Develop and deliver formal updates to network designs that describe, and capture proposed/approved architectural changes.
• Provide technical support for reviews of third-party vendor proposals.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors in a STEM related field and nine (9) years or more years relevant experience; Masters in a STEM related field and seven (7) years or more years of relevant experience.
• Six (6) plus years experiences working Tier 3 anomaly resolution.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of test methodologies, verification/troubleshooting of telecommunications circuits.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Optical Line System (OTN, OC-192, 10/100/400GE) circuits.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of MEF 2.0 Carrier Ethernet (E-LINE, EVC) circuits.
• Demonstrated ability to work multiple efforts concurrently with shifting priorities.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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