Tactical Communications (TACOM) / Infrastructure Specialist

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

The Tactical Communications (TACOM) / Infrastructure Specialist manages the lifecycle, deployment, validation, troubleshooting, and sustainment of edge equipment and communications infrastructure across San Diego, Tucson, Yuma, and other assigned Southwest locations. The position is remote when not traveling and requires approximately 80% domestic travel, including extended site assignments.

• Manage the lifecycle of edge communications and infrastructure equipment, including planning, staging, installation, configuration, testing, maintenance, refresh, and disposition.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and validate routers, switches, gateways, interfaces, radios, workstations, monitors, and related edge equipment.
• Diagnose connectivity outages, routing issues, interface failures, latency, packet loss, bandwidth limitations, and network redundancy problems.
• Support tactical communications, radio systems, operator workstations, IFT or radar workstations, and CBP-network-connected equipment as authorized.
• Conduct site surveys, infrastructure assessments, equipment inventories, requirements validation, and system health checks.
• Assess and troubleshoot UPS systems, backup power, primary power, environmental conditions, shielding, grounding, and electromagnetic interference.
• Support video walls, display monitors, access control, door locks, and other C2 infrastructure.
• Coordinate deployments and maintenance with customers, network providers, vendors, construction teams, electricians, and other technical disciplines.
• Perform network and infrastructure testing, failover validation, operational readiness testing, and customer acceptance.
• Develop network diagrams, equipment inventories, configuration records, as-built documentation, test reports, deficiency lists, and closeout packages.
• Provide remote technical support, follow-up coordination, and status reporting between field deployments.
• Identify recurring problems and recommend improvements to network resiliency, maintainability, and system availability.
• Manage assigned work packages from planning through installation, validation, remediation, and final acceptance.
• Travel to multiple stations and C2CENs, including extended deployments and occasional after-hours maintenance windows.

• Active CBP BI or TOP SECRET clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology, or a related technical field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Eight or more years of experience in tactical communications, network engineering, field infrastructure, telecommunications, systems integration, or mission-critical technology deployments.
• Experience with routers, switches, gateways, network interfaces, WAN, LAN, wireless, cellular, satellite, or tactical communications systems.
• Experience with network redundancy, failover, connectivity, latency, packet loss, performance troubleshooting, and remote-site support.
• Experience with radios, tactical communications, edge equipment deployment, operator workstations, video walls, and display systems.
• Experience with UPS systems, backup power, environmental dependencies, shielding, grounding, or electromagnetic interference.
• Experience with equipment staging, installation, configuration management, site surveys, testing, validation, and customer acceptance.
• Ability to travel approximately 80% and support extended deployments across the Southwest and other U.S. locations.