Data Center Engineer

KBR, Inc; Lanham (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR, Inc. in Maryland is seeking a Data Center Engineer to provide infrastructure engineering for data center refreshes and new technologies, including private cloud capabilities.

The role focuses on improving security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers. You will design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services; review architectures, document upgrade requirements, and build secure host and tenant environments for Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX, and VMware in

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• Experience in infrastructure/datacenter engineering for physical and virtual environments.
• Experience with Windows, Linux, UNIX and IBM/AIX systems; VMware experience essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide infrastructure engineering for data center refresh and new technologies.
• Design and implement secure infrastructure services to improve security, availability, and performance.
• Review current infrastructures to identify improvements and document upgrade requirements.
• Design and build host and tenant environments with security hardened configurations.
• Design and document capacity plans for private cloud and hybrid data centers.

Skills

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance

8+ years with BS/BA or 3-5 years with

Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering

Windows/Linux/Solaris/UNIX/AIX

VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite

Education

BS/BA or MS/MA or PhD in relevant field

Tools

VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite

Job description

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.

• 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.

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

$160,000 - $195,000 (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.

Additional Compensation

KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may be in the form of sign on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow.

We Deliver – Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

KBR — Delivering Solutions, Changing the World. KBR brings together the best and brightest to deliver science, technology and engineering solutions that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most critical missions and objectives.

In everything we do, we are guided by our ONE KBR Values:

• We Value Our People – We create diverse, inclusive environments in which each person can feel safe, respected and valued, and where everyone has opportunities to grow and reach their full potential.
• We Deliver – We are uncompromising in our commitment to deliver innovative, high-quality, technology-led solutions for our customers and exceptional, sustainable value for all our stakeholders.
• We Are People of Integrity – We value honesty, trust, courage, fairness, prudence and tenacity. We believe doing what’s right for the planet, the communities where we work, and our people is good for business.
• We Empower – We empower our people with a shared purpose, the right tools and the supportive culture they need to be proactive decision-makers, to be adaptive to change, and to succeed.
• We Are a Team of Teams – We have a will to succeed, but we value the achievements of our team of teams over individual accomplishments. Our collective focus makes us a better, stronger, more effective company.

We have also embedded environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in every business operation and corporate function. Not only are we committed to operating safely, sustainably and equitable, but we are also committed to using our capabilities and expertise to help our customers accomplish their sustainability goals.

Worldwide, KBR employs a diverse workforce approximately 29,000 people strong, with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 40 countries. At KBR, We Deliver.