Senior Unified Communications (UC) Engineer

About the role

Amentum is hiring a Senior Unified Capabilities (UC) Engineer in Ft. Meade, MD, to support a program providing critical IT capabilities to the Department of Defense. 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 work in a SCIF and occasionally in a datacenter.

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 building a secure, scalable, resilient UC prototype for DoD use on classified networks
• Serve as technical point of contact for UC design and engineering, defining architecture and interface specifications compliant with DoD UCR, STIGs and other cybersecurity mandates
• Integrate voice (VoIP), video conferencing, instant messaging, presence and unified messaging across IP networks with existing classified infrastructure
• Run lab 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 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 5 years of UC engineering experience
• 15 years of IT engineering experience, at least 10 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 UC platforms: CUCM, CUBE, Cisco Meeting Server, Cisco Unified Border Element
• Voice gateways, SIP session border controllers, SIP trunks, ISDN circuits
• Protocols: SIP, RTP, SRTP, VoIP, H.323, XMPP, TLS, PKI
• Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint
• Preferred: CCNP Collaboration, DoD 8570.01-M IAT-II, VQ Conference Manager, classified cloud environments, DevSecOps/IaC, NIST SP 800-53, RMF, DISA STIGs