Job Details

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company's commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities

Provide Quality Control (QC) support on a wide variety of IT systems, to include premises wiring; inside plant (ISP) infrastructure, telecommunications rooms/areas and associated infrastructure; and outside cable plant (OSP) infrastructure. This is for Inside and Outside Plant with experience with TIA and ANSI standards.

• Performing walkthroughs/inspections.
• Reviewing and validating installation procedures.
• Maintaining QC checklists and logs.
• Witnessing IT testing.
• Witnessing critical aspects (i.e. concrete encasement, mandrelling, etc.) of outside plant construction.
• Performing checkpoint reviews and filing reports.
• Attending project briefings.
• Provides installation and operational support of voice and data communications hardware and software systems.
• Designs, develops, implements, tests, debugs, and maintains communications systems.
• Performs configuration of operating system and security patches for host and distributed systems, and implements incident response procedures during incidents of a
  network or host security breach.
• Complies with prescribed customer, industry, and agency standards.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline with 0-5+ years' experience, or
• Associate's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline with 7+ years' experience.
• SECRET security clearance.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Up to five (5) years experience in IT installation and testing
• Experience with optical fiber and copper cable testing.
• Experience with grounding, bonding, and shielding.
• Familiarity with ANSI/TIA standards.
• Familiarity with military IT/construction projects.

Physical Requirements:

This position requires the ability to perform the below essential functions:

• Standing for long periods.
• Ambulate throughout a building.
• Ambulate between several buildings.
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, as required.

About Empower AI

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm's overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.