Satellite Systems Engineer

At IT Availability, we promote a strong, collaborative culture and provide our employees with the tools and skills they need to succeed. We are about trust, camaraderie, and a shared ambition to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges. You will get to work alongside a team of talented professionals who are passionate about their work and the mission. We offer competitive pay and benefits, a flexible work environment to support work/life balance as well as a learning environment and training opportunities to further develop you professionally. Come be a part of a company that is driven to improve our customers, our future, and to protect our freedom. We are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too.

Duties, Tasks, and Responsibilities

  • Manages satellite frequency spectrum in conjunction with the satellite operator determining carrier frequency and carrier power based on parameters such as data rate, modulation scheme, satellite transmit power, and receive gain over temperature.

  • Monitors the power equivalent bandwidth utilization of satellite spectrum and report findings

  • Provides detailed recommendations based on analysis of satellite link calculations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

  • Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

  • Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

  • Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

  • Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

  • Documentation —Ability to draft requirements documents, correspondence and procedures in accordance with policies.

  • Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Equipment Selection — Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.

  • Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Requires

1.     US Citizenship

2.     Contingent upon successfully completing processing for a security clearance. 

IT Availability LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

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