Data Center Engineer

KBR•Lanham, MD

13d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired
ITIL Foundations certification desired

Responsibilities

Provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refresh and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.
Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.
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.
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.
Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment.
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.
Participate in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures.
Understand data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases.
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.