Information Technologist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Requires network administrative privileges to perform duties.
• Maintains training and certification requirements to sustain elevated rights to the AREA52 domain.
• Performs communications-computer systems (C-CS) planning and implementation activities.
• Supports implementation of C-CS projects and ensures C-CS architecture, configuration, and integration conformity.
• Provides analytical, technical, functional and management oversight to critical communications and systems network upgrades and maintenance for the RQ-4 weapon system.
• Provide analytical, advisory, and technical support to leadership as systems analyst and advisor to 69 RG/CD and 12 RS/CC.
• Facilitate 9 RW project management efforts directed and approved by either 9 RW, 69 RG and, 12 RS to improve RQ-4 integration into USAF and National architectures, in particular, the AF Distributed Common Ground System (AF-DCGS) and the Department of Defense Global Information Grid (DoD-GIG).
• Provide C-CS laptop computer administration and support of up to 250 individual issued and loaner laptops to identified associated units and attached aircrew.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Be a US Citizen.
• Possess a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
• Possess a NATO Secret security clearance.
• Knowledge of Air Force C-CS technologies with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience working with a variety of the C-CS field’s concepts, practices and procedures, ground-based telecommunications systems, avionics and information system technology, management of program and project implementation actions, and Air Force planning documents and application of these documents to the C-CS systems.
• Minimum of four years’ experience with: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Ethernet, Local and wide area networks, UNIX and non-UNIX operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.