Data Center Engineer

## Data Center EngineerApplylocations: Lanham, Marylandtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R2127261**Title:**Data Center Engineer***Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!***KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.**Why Join Us?*** **Innovative Projects:** KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.* **Collaborative Environment:** Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.* **Impactful Work:** Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.**Responsibilities:**The qualified candidate will provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refresh and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities. The candidate will also design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.* **Key responsibilities include:** + Reviewing current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements; analyzing, refining, and documenting the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment + Designing and building host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and designing ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates + The candidate will design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources and document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services + The qualified candidate will also design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment + Additional responsibilities for this role include: designing practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources + Identifying infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting + Designing Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services + Providing advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis and use of systems technology including architecture, integration capabilities and database management + Developing the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved + The qualified candidate will possess a wide range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context and will participate in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures + The candidate will also understand data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases + Additional activities for this role may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics**Work Environment:*** **Location:** On-Site – 540 National Business Parkway, Annapolis Junction, MD* **Travel Requirements:** Minimal* **Working Hours:** Standard**Minimum Qualifications:*** **Experience/Education:*** Active Top Secret / SCI clearance* Requires 8 years with BS/BA or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD* Experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering and integration for both physical and virtual infrastructure hosting one or more Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, and/or AIX systems* Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds* Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification**Desired Qualifications:*** Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired* ITIL Foundations certification desired**Basic Compensation:** **$129,700 - $194,600 (This range is for Maryland only)**The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity. #J-18808-Ljbffr