Data Center Engineer

Peraton•Austin, TX

1d•$80,000 - $128,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton supports the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mission to deliver timely, reliable care and benefits to America's Veterans by engineering, operating, and modernizing a nationwide data center portfolio. Our team runs enterprise and regional data centers, telecommunications spaces, and secure network connections that host the systems Veterans depend on — from claims processing and pharmacy fulfillment to appointment scheduling and benefits delivery. We provide full-lifecycle data center and cloud engineering, 24x7x365 operations and monitoring, DCIM platform administration, analytics, and facility infrastructure reporting. If you want your engineering, operations, or analytics work to matter to someone, this is where it does.

Requirements

Currently possess or be able to obtain VA Public Trust — High Risk (BI High) / Tier 4 background investigation.
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, or a related field; 5+ years of data center or comparable enterprise infrastructure engineering experience.
Master's degree substitutes ~2 years of required experience; Ph.D. substitutes ~5 years of required experience.
In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, 4 additional years of relevant experience is acceptable (Associate's degree + 2 additional years also accepted for equivalent professional levels).

Nice To Haves

Data center monitoring and management tools including Nlyte Asset Optimizer / Energy Optimizer (DCIM), ServiceNow (ITSM/CMDB), SolarWinds, Nagios, PRTG, PuTTY, Wireshark, PowerShell, Python, Power BI, MS Visio, and SharePoint.
AutoCAD and Visio for infrastructure drawings.
ITIL v4 service management, SAFe Agile / Scrum for iterative delivery, NIST 800-53 / RMF, ISO 27001, TIA-942, ASHRAE TC 9.9, VA CRISP alignment, NFPA 70/70E, and OSHA safety practices.
TIA-942, VA Handbook 7002.
PE (Electrical or Mechanical), BICSI RCDD, Uptime Institute ATD/ATS, EPI CDCP/CDCS/CDCE, LEED AP, CEM.
ITIL v4 Foundation (Practitioner/Managing Professional a plus), SAFe Practitioner or SAFe DevOps.

Responsibilities

Design, evaluate, and support data center infrastructure across compute, racks, power, cooling, cabling, capacity, and equipment deployments.
Contribute to site assessments and produce Site Visit / Assessment Reports for VA facilities.
Support design reviews, from conceptual through issued-for-construction, and respond to VA comments within committed turn times.
Maintain configuration management materials — cable schedules, rack elevations, floor plans, labeling matrices — for supported facilities.