Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Employment: Temp to Perm (12 months)
Industry: Aerospace and Defense
Compensation: $71.44/hr.
Schedule: 980-Reg
About the Opportunity:
- As a Telecommunications Provisioning Specialist / Circuit Actions Engineer, you'll play a critical role in delivering and maintaining telecom transport services across government and defense networking environments.
- You'll manage circuit actions from initial requirements review and order submission through installation, testing, activation, troubleshooting, and documentation, working closely with government organizations, commercial carriers, engineers, and field teams.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Manage end-to-end circuit actions, including new services, upgrades, modifications, rehomes, renewals, disconnects, and restorations.
- Translate network requirements into accurate circuit orders, ensuring bandwidth, diversity, demarcation, Layer 1 interfaces, and site delivery requirements are properly addressed.
- Submit and track DISA Storefront and other telecom service requests while coordinating with government organizations, commercial carriers, and internal engineering teams.
- Coordinate installation, testing, troubleshooting, and service activation, resolving issues such as incorrect node delivery, interface or cross-connect errors, failed testing, and provider discrepancies.
- Maintain accurate circuit inventories, provisioning records, technical documentation, and status trackers while supporting outage response and service restoration activities.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 10+ years of experience supporting telecommunications provisioning, circuit actions, or telecom transport within DoD/DoW, defense, or government networking environments.
What Sets You Apart:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
- Master's Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
- Experience supporting telecom provisioning, transport services, circuit actions, or network operations in a government, defense, or mission-critical environment.
- Knowledge of telecom transport services and interfaces such as Ethernet, MPLS, optical/fiber, SONET/legacy transport, and other Layer 1 handoff types.
- Ability to interpret technical requirements, service orders, circuit IDs, engineering guidance, topology diagrams, demarcation details, and provisioning records.
- Familiarity with router, switch, optical transport, and encryption device connectivity relates to circuit activation, troubleshooting, and service turn-up.
- Ability to troubleshoot service delivery and activation problems including loss of signal, handoff mismatches, cross-connect issues, patching errors, and configuration readiness gaps.
- Ability to coordinate across multiple military, government, contractor, and commercial organizations.
- Ability to analyze service delivery problems, drive corrective actions, and escalate effectively when providers miss milestones or technical requirements.
- Skill in maintaining detailed records, status trackers, inventory data, test results, and provisioning documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate with providers, technical teams, government program offices, and supported commands.
- Familiarity with DISA Marketplace launch and transition plans.
- Strong communication skills and documentation.
- Ability to interact with senior customer organizations and personnel.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
- Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person', as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.
- Requires an active Secret Clearance.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Aug 15, 2026