Network Analyst (2026-0073)

About the role

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading cyber operations, intelligence solutions and operations, network infrastructure, engineering and business enablement and enterprise operations 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide analytical support to various internal customers.
• Address very distinct areas of telecommunications as a subject matter expert.
• Coordinate with the customer’s other multidisciplinary teams to provide timely and accurate network analysis regarding the logical and physical routes of key telecommunications networks.
• Evaluate the role and value of potential network operations.
• Display mastery of network operations, principles, and best practices.
• Creatively employ a mastery of telecom domain to support the multidisciplinary teams in providing direct mapping and graphics inputs into the customer’s modeling tool.
• Perform analysis on wireless and wireline circuit-switched and packet-switched telecommunications networks.
• Perform analysis on transmission protocols.
• Perform analysis on network technologies.
• Present analysis to a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Serve as the focal point for tracking and understanding emerging technologies.
• Maintain appropriate technical training to ensure skills and tradecraft are kept current with evolving technology.
• Perform other duties as assigned at the direction of project management.

Requirements

• Absolutely need to have obtained and maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Minimum of six (6) years of commercial experience in one of the following roles:
• Facility Engineer or Network Planner (TDM and/or Data)
• Large Scale Networking engineering across multiple packet fabrics, such as google B4
• Core Network engineer, or radio network engineer with experience in 3g, 4g, and/or 5G

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline (Computer Science, Cyber Security, Engineering, Mathematics, or Statics, etc.).
• Experience with telecommunication 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 and wireline transport infrastructure.
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of network technologies and network protocols, networking systems and equipment.
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of, or experience with, one or more of the following:
• Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
• Data Networks (IP, MPLS, traffic engineering, OpenFlow)
• Dedicated/Private communications networks
• VOIP networks, Softswitch Technology, or Session Border Controllers (SBC’s)
• Fiber Optic cable characteristics, engineering, installation, and maintenance
• RF-related technologies (Cellular, microwave, millimeter wave, VSAT)
• Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology

Skills

• Expert level knowledge of the OSI model at layer 1, 2 or 3.
• Private sector work experience with an industry leading telecom company (Verizon, ATT, Sptint) or hardware provider (Cisco, Lucent, Qualcomm, Nokia).

Benefits

None required, potential opportunities if desirable.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

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