Circuit Support Specialist, Senior

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Circuit Support Specialist to join our team in the greater DMV area supporting the Army National Guard.

Responsibilities

• Lead circuit lifecycle management: plan provision activate monitor tune and decommission enterprise circuits across NIPR/SIPR and hybrid/cloud environments.
• Serve as primary technical liaison with carriers service providers and vendors for provisioning escalations SLA enforcement troubleticket resolution and RMA coordination.
• Define and enforce standards procedures and runbooks for circuit design acceptance testing monitoring capacity planning and fault remediation.
• Monitor circuit performance and availability; analyze telemetry and trend data to identify capacity constraints latency/jitter issues packet loss and other service degradations.
• Perform rootcause analysis for circuit incidents coordinate crossfunctional remediation with engineering NOC SOC and operations teams and validate corrective actions.
• Conduct capacity forecasting cost/performance tradeoff analyses and recommend optimization or modernization actions (diversity redundancy route optimization carrier swaps).
• Maintain circuit inventories topology diagrams service records circuit diagrams and configuration documentation in authoritative repositories.
• Ensure circuit implementations comply with architectural standards security requirements RMF/STIG considerations and program operational needs.
• Produce circuit status reports SLA performance metrics outage postmortems and executive briefings for program leadership.
• Mentor junior circuit engineers and contribute to continuous improvement of circuit management processes and automation.

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Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Candidate must meet ONE:
  • Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Science Information Systems Information Technology or Software Engineering; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (e.g. 411C32255N 10225S40C45 4CFA26B M0923W1 M0923X1); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: SecurityX/CASP CCNA CCNP Security CCSP GCED GCIA GCLD GDSA GFACT).
• Telecom/network engineering experience with demonstrated circuit planning/provisioning carrier management and lifecycle oversight in enterprise or DoD environments.
• Proven experience with carrier interconnects MPLS SDWAN VPNs dedicated circuits transport technologies and NOC escalation workflows.
• Strong skills in diagnostics performance analysis capacity planning topology documentation and vendor SLA negotiation.
• Proficiency with circuit/inventory management tools network monitoring platforms and diagramming/CMDB repositories.

Desired Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting NIPRNet/SIPRNet DoDIN services DISA/NETCOM carrier integrations or ARNG/DoD network programs.
• Familiarity with RMF/STIG implications on circuit services secure circuit provisioning and crossdomain connectivity constraints.
• Experience with automation/orchestration for provisioning (API integrations) SDWAN deployments and cloud connectivity patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to produce executivelevel reports cost/benefit analyses and recommendations for circuit modernization or redundancy planning.

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.