Senior Unified Communications (UC) Engineer

About the role

Amentum is hiring a Senior Unified Capabilities (UC) Engineer in Ft. Meade, MD, to support a team building IT capabilities for the Department of Defense in support of DISA's Intel and Cyber Division. The team works on prototype development, test and demonstration, and is kept available longer term for integration, deployment and sustainment. The position is 8 hours per day, Monday through Friday, and involves daily work in a SCIF.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute technical expertise and recommendations on UC and collaboration technologies, including large-scale conferencing and session border controllers.
• Lead a team of UC engineers in developing a secure, scalable, resilient UC prototype for DoD use on classified networks.
• Serve as technical point of contact for UC design and engineering activities, defining architecture and interface specifications in compliance with DoD UCR, STIGs and other cybersecurity mandates.
• Integrate voice (VoIP), video conferencing, instant messaging, presence and unified messaging across IP networks, coordinating with government stakeholders, security engineers and network teams.
• Run lab-based testing, proof-of-concept demonstrations and field evaluations, and prepare engineering documentation, risk assessments and status reports.
• Advise the UC, network and systems engineering teams and cyber security experts on voice and video technologies, interoperability and security requirements.

Required profile

• Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field, or an additional five years of UC engineering experience.
• At least 15 years of IT engineering experience, with at least 10 years in UC.
• Demonstrated experience designing, architecting and deploying secure UC solutions in classified or DoD environments.
• Ability to work independently and in a team, and to travel up to 20%.

Required skills

• Subject matter expert in UC design, endpoints, user management, configuration, troubleshooting and integration.
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE), Cisco Meeting Server, and VQ Conference Manager.
• Protocols: SIP, RTP, SRTP, VoIP, H.323, XMPP, TLS, PKI.
• Preferred: CCNP Collaboration, DoD 8570.01-M IAT-II, knowledge of NIST SP 800-53, RMF, DISA STIGs and ACAS, and experience with classified cloud environments.