Location: Chantilly, VA

Number of Openings: 1

Clearance Required: Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active Top Secret clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be open to random CI polygraph.

Background:

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators.

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Unified Communications Engineer to join our team on a new contract providing support to a large enterprise IT system in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Resolving Unified Communications user incidents and requests, to include operational voice and video challenges.

• Resolving issues with vendor-specific multi-level video teleconferencing systems.

• Managing CUCM, CMS and UC endpoints firmware/software updates.

• Managing Licensing and Security Certs on all UC products.

• Managing VCS, CUC, CER, and VBrick.

• Completing moves/adds/changes according to the specified SLAs.

• Providing weekly report activities to the manager.

• Assisting with the installation of local and/or remote data and voice communications equipment to include (but not limited to) voice terminals, video conferencing units, concentrators, minicomputers, central processing units, and facsimiles.

• Creating and maintaining appropriate documentation, including operational instructions.

• Working in a team with standardized solutions based on Cisco network equipment around the country and sometimes internationally.

• Utilizing excellent customer service skills and exceeding customers' expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• Meet/exceed position and certification requirements outlined in DoD Directive 8570.01-M for Information Assurance Technician Level I or Information Assurance Manager Level I.
• A completed DoD 8570 computing environment certification within 6 months of hire (Cisco CCNA Voice or equivalent certification).
• Experience with Cisco Voice/Video Endpoints, CUCM version 11.5 or later, CMM, CUC, CER, VCS, TMS, CIMC, VBrick and VMware.
• Good problem-solving skills: ability to visualize a problem or situation and think abstractly to solve it.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Local travel up to 10%.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with CUCM, CMS, CMM, TMS, VMware.

Essential Job Functions:

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to focus on the essential functions of a position to determine whether an individual is qualified. Essential job functions are the fundamental job duties that an applicant or employee must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.

The physical requirements of this position include:

• Ability to sit and work in a cubicle on a workstation in a SCIF for approximately eight (8) hours each workday.
• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers. Must be able to easily exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Must be able to lift at least 40 lbs.

Education Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree preferably in IT, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Engineering, or similar field of study

Years of Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in information networks and related security concerns with a BS, 5 years of experience required with a Master's degree. Four additional years of experience accepted in lieu of a degree.

Position Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Export Control: For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ACS may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

Assured Consulting Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ACS' utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ACS does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact ACS Human Resources at (703) 662-5062.