Data Center Engineer

Digital Consultants, LLC•Hampton, VA

About The Position

Digital Consultants is seeking a seasoned data center professional to lead the planning, design, and execution of large-scale data center migration projects. The role develops migration strategies intended to reduce risk and downtime while ensuring scalability, performance, security, and compliance. It covers on-premises transitions and consolidations, as well as hybrid and cloud-adjacent migrations. The position also provides technical leadership across data center infrastructure, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery, and helps coordinate migration execution and post-migration optimization. The role assesses existing environments, dependencies, and risks; develops roadmaps and execution plans; and architects target-state designs aligned with business objectives and security standards. It coordinates across infrastructure, network, storage, security, and application teams; establishes standards and frameworks; prepares architecture and operational documentation; and mentors engineering and operations teams. Additional systems-engineering responsibilities include analyzing technical capabilities and emerging hardware and software, deriving and verifying requirements, translating strategies into system and network specifications, integrating system elements, assessing performance, supporting customer liaison and business development, coordinating equipment planning and installation, and participating in conceptual design and development of network services and equipment. Digital Consultants describes itself as an SBA 8(a) small, disadvantaged business supporting Federal, civilian, and private-sector IT customers. The company states that it offers growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package, and is committed to an inclusive and welcoming workforce. Reasonable accommodations are available during the employment process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 12 or more years of experience.
Top Secret/SCI clearance.
DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification; examples listed are Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CySA+, and CND.
Deep expertise in data center infrastructure, including compute, storage, and networking.
Strong understanding of virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM.
Proficiency in designing and executing large-scale data center migrations.
Knowledge of cloud platforms and hybrid or cloud-adjacent architectures.
Experience with storage architectures, including SAN, NAS, and object storage.
Advanced networking knowledge, including routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancing.
Familiarity with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
Strong understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk mitigation.
Ability to develop architectural standards, frameworks, and documentation.
Experience with automation and orchestration tools such as PowerShell and Ansible.
Proficiency in dependency mapping, workload analysis, and capacity planning.

Nice To Haves

Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
Ability to lead technical teams and provide mentorship.
Experience with DoD networks, including NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS.
Experience working in fast-paced, transformation-driven environments.

Responsibilities

Design and lead end-to-end data center migration strategies, including on-premises transitions, consolidations, and hybrid or cloud-adjacent migrations.
Assess existing data center environments, dependencies, and risks, and develop migration roadmaps and execution plans.
Architect target-state data center designs aligned with business objectives, security standards, and compliance requirements.
Coordinate migration activities with infrastructure, network, storage, security, and application teams.
Establish standards, best practices, and architectural frameworks for data center operations and future scalability.
Lead technical decisions concerning virtualization platforms, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery.
Oversee migration execution, including cutover planning, validation, and post-migration optimization.
Identify and mitigate performance, availability, data integrity, and security risks throughout the migration lifecycle.
Produce architecture diagrams, runbooks, migration plans, and operational handoff documentation.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering and operations teams.
Investigate the technical capabilities of company services and competing equipment or solutions, and stay informed about hardware and software developments.
Generate quantifiable requirements from customer descriptions and system planning and design, and ensure compliance through formal verification methods.
Translate high-level product development strategies into network and system requirements, coordinating with engineering disciplines on detailed implementation requirements.
Establish and coordinate standards, practices, and procedures for network and system development.
Design interfaces and integrate network and system elements so they operate as a whole.
Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
Provide customer liaison and support for business development activities and requirements development.
Coordinate equipment planning, design, and installation using engineering and programming knowledge and instruments and computers.
Participate in system conceptual design and document design concepts.
Design, create, and build network services, equipment, and devices.