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Data Center Engineer (Infrastructure/Cloud)

2023-137636
Information Technology
Top Secret/SCI

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Undisclosed
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MD

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No remote/telework allowed
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About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Be part of our exciting team supporting a robust, world-wide communications network, providing office automation packages; document and information management tools; and collaboration, voice, and video tools in a secure, flexible, distributed architecture supporting a classified DoD IT system.  Peraton is seeking a Infrastructure - Data Center Engineer to provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refresh and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.  Responsibilities include:

  • Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers
  • Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements
  • Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment
  • Design and build host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design 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
  • 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
  • Design practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources 
  • Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting 
  • Design Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services
Qualifications
  • Bachelors and 8+ years of experience, Masters and 3+ years; additional 4+ years in lieu of degree
  • Active TS/SCI clearance is required.
  • 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 II certification (i.e., Security+ CE).
  • Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired.
  • ITIL Foundations certification desired.

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

  • Paid Time-Off and Holidays
  • Retirement
  • Life & Disability Insurance
  • Career Development
  • Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Additional Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Care
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