Telecommunications Specialist (Surveillance)

As a Telecommunications Specialist (Surveillance), your typical work assignments may include:

• Coverting surveillance, tracking, and interception to assist Special Agents, personnel internal or external to the agency, and across the DEA world-wide with investigative operations by integrating the use of electronic communications equipment.
• System designing, engineering, optimization, and modifications for large and diverse inventory of highly specialized state-of-the-art electronics, video, photographic, fixed, and mobile tracking, analog, and digital telecommunications used in surveillance and information gathering activities to support criminal investigations and prosecutions.
• Providing consultative/planning, advising, continuously evaluating advancements in technology and equipment making recommendations to the Office of Investigative Technology (ST) which may result in adoption/modification of the Investigative.
• Participating in designing, dismantling, and fabrication of covert and concealed equipment, installation, repairs, retrieval, maintenance, troubleshooting, and providing training/technical support on the use of the equipment.
• Installing, configurations, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of various IP or data networking equipment and IP or data systems to include firewalls, switches, routers, servers, wireline transport (circuits), wireless modems, video surveillance equipment such as IP based cameras, networking gear, and video capture/monitoring applications.
• Analyzing networks including radio frequency-based (e.g., cellular, radio, Wi-Fi) and Internet protocol-based to determine the best technological approach (i.e. electronic surveillance, communication, and interception) to use in support of an investigative operations.

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