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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nLead Network Systems Engineer\nIn a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!\nAt Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.\nJob Profile:\nLead Network Systems Engineer\nJob Description:\nThe Lead Network Systems Engineer is responsible for providing technical integration, interface management, and execution support for a large and complex command and control facility project at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.\nThe position supports the integration of C4IT within the contract for the design, construction, commissioning, accreditation, and turnover of a highly secure, mission-critical headquarters and command-and-control facility. The Lead Network Systems Engineer will coordinate facility-to-payload interfaces involving telecommunications, networks, mission systems, audiovisual systems, data-center infrastructure, power, cooling, security boundaries, pathways, rooms, and operational technology.\nThe Lead Network Systems Engineer will serve as a primary technical interface for C4IT among the Program Management Office, the Owner’s Advisor, the Progressive Design-Build contractor, facility designers, security stakeholders, commissioning personnel, and operations representatives.\nThe role requires the ability to convert mission and technology requirements into clear facility interfaces, track dependencies through design and construction, identify impacts to scope and schedule, and support timely resolution of technical issues. The successful candidate will be able to clearly communicate the status of C4IT actions and decisions, ownership and due dates, affected systems or deliverables, supporting evidence for closure, and unresolved issues affecting cost, schedule, quality, security, commissioning, accreditation, or facility acceptance.\nThe Lead Network Systems Engineer will support a project that includes a separate data center and Central Utility Plant, a four-story command and control facility, and a Joint Operations Center with secure, resilient, and mission-critical infrastructure. The position will support the project throughout design development, construction, systems integration, commissioning oversight, security accreditation support, facility turnover, and closeout.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nC4IT Integration and Interface Management\nDevelop, maintain, and administer a Live Interface Register that identifies C4IT installation milestones, facility dependencies, responsible parties, required decisions, constraints, and evidence of closure.\nMap C4IT requirements to facility design elements, including rooms, pathways, power, cooling, grounding and bonding, telecommunications spaces, equipment clearances, security boundaries, and access requirements.\nCoordinate facility design and construction activities with the separate C4IT contract to prevent interface conflicts and schedule disruption.\nIdentify critical-path interdependencies between facility construction, C4IT equipment installation, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and operational acceptance.\nFacilitate technical integration meetings among the Design-Builder, C4IT contractor, government stakeholders, security personnel, commissioning representatives, and facility operations teams.\nTrack C4IT decisions, action items, risks, assumptions, interface boundaries, and changes through project information-management systems.\nDesign Review and Technical Validation\nReview design submissions, shop drawings, equipment layouts, technical submittals, RFIs, requests for clarification, and design changes affecting C4IT systems or facility interfaces.\nVerify that C4IT-related facility infrastructure supports applicable Owner’s Project Requirements, performance-based specifications, mission requirements, and approved design criteria.\nReview telecommunications rooms, entrance facilities, cable pathways, equipment rooms, raised access floors, utilidors, cable trays, work-area outlets, equipment clearances, and related infrastructure.\nEvaluate design coordination for classified and unclassified network separation, secure pathways, telecommunications grounding, equipment bonding, and facility security boundaries.\nSupport technical reviews of data-center cabinet layouts, rack densities, power requirements, cooling requirements, network pathways, and future expansion provisions.\nCoordinate with technical authorities and security stakeholders regarding SCIF, SAP, TEMPEST, RF-shielding, and HEMP-related C4IT interfaces.\nParticipate in interdisciplinary design reviews and constructability reviews to identify C4IT risks before they affect construction or installation.\nData Center and High-Density Computing Coordination\nSupport coordination of the standalone data center and associated infrastructure for mission data processing, storage, networking, and high-performance computing.\nReview data-center planning assumptions for cabinet quantities, cabinet densities, classification zones, power distribution, cooling capacity, equipment access, and maintainability.\nSupport coordination of high-density and liquid-cooling requirements, including facility power, chilled-water, cooling-distribution-unit, pathway, and equipment-room interfaces.\nTrack changes in rack density, technology refresh, equipment footprints, heat loads, and power requirements that may affect the facility design or construction sequence.\nCoordinate with the PMO and C4IT stakeholders as data-center requirements mature during design.\nThe PCR planning basis identifies a standalone data center planned for approximately 550 cabinets, with a current planning estimate of 27,350 total rack kilowatts across NIPR, SIPR, TS, and SAP environments.\nConstruction and Installation Support\nMonitor construction activities affecting C4IT infrastructure, pathways, equipment rooms, telecommunications rooms, technical boundaries, and secure areas.\nVerify that installed infrastructure is consistent with approved design documents, interface requirements, submittals, and sequencing plans.\nSupport pre-installation readiness reviews for C4IT equipment and systems.\nCoordinate site access, material delivery, equipment staging, environmental conditioning, power availability, network pathways, and security prerequisites before C4IT installation.\nParticipate in “test-before-enclose” and pre-concealment reviews for C4IT pathways, penetrations, interfaces, and secure construction elements.\nReview field conditions and assist with resolution of design-construction conflicts.\nSupport tracking of deficiencies, incomplete work, corrective actions, and acceptance evidence through project information-management systems.\nCoordinate C4IT requirements with progressive turnover and load-in activities.\nCommissioning, Testing, and Turnover Support\nSupport development and review of C4IT commissioning, systems-integration, testing, and acceptance requirements.\nCoordinate C4IT readiness with facility commissioning and integrated systems testing.\nVerify that substantial-completion and turnover criteria account for C4IT system readiness, installation status, testing, documentation, and acceptance.\nSupport development and execution of technical test scripts, interface-validation procedures, and readiness reviews.\nTrack test results, deficiencies, retesting, approvals, and final acceptance documentation.\nSupport turnover of as-built documentation, equipment records, configuration data, interface records, test results, and operations-and-maintenance information.\nProgram Controls, Risk, and Stakeholder Coordination\nIdentify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with C4IT interfaces, technology changes, design maturity, procurement lead times, security requirements, installation sequencing, and commissioning.\nSupport integration of C4IT risks and dependencies into the program risk register and integrated master schedule.\nEvaluate C4IT-related impacts to scope, cost, schedule, mission assurance, constructability, security, accreditation, and lifecycle operations.\nPrepare technical briefings, decision papers, interface reports, risk analyses, and status updates for project leadership.\nMaintain accurate and auditable records of C4IT decisions, requirements, assumptions, actions, approvals, and closure evidence.\nPromote a collaborative “One Team” environment consistent with the project’s DBIA-aligned delivery approach.\nWhat Required Skills You’ll Bring:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in electrical engineering, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology, telecommunications, construction management, or a closely related technical discipline.\nTen or more years of progressive experience in C4IT, telecommunications, network infrastructure, data centers, mission systems, facility systems integration, or related technical project delivery.\nDemonstrated experience coordinating C4IT or technology systems with building design, construction, commissioning, or facility operations.\nExperience supporting complex federal, defense, intelligence, command-and-control, data-center, mission-critical, or secure-facility projects.\nExperience developing or managing interface registers, requirements traceability, systems-integration plans, technical action-item trackers, or similar configuration-management tools.\nExperience reviewing multidisciplinary design documents, technical submittals, equipment layouts, pathways, network infrastructure, power and cooling interfaces, and construction documents.\nWorking knowledge of telecommunications infrastructure, structured cabling, fiber-optic systems, network rooms, entrance facilities, cable trays, pathways, grounding and bonding, and equipment-room coordination.\nExperience coordinating technology installation with construction sequencing and site readiness requirements.\nExperience supporting integrated testing, commissioning, acceptance testing, deficiency resolution, and turnover documentation.\nAbility to 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