Data Center Engineer: Mission-Critical Infra Pro

RiseMe; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to design, evaluate, and support core data center infrastructure across compute, racks, power, cooling, and cabling for VA facilities in Austin, TX. You will contribute to site assessments and ensure timely response during design reviews, maintaining up-to-date configuration documentation for reliable operations.

The role requires 5+ years in data center engineering with a Bachelor's in Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, or related field; 5+ years of data center or enterprise infra engineering experience.

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.

Skills

Data center engineering

Infrastructure design

ITIL v4

SAFe Agile

NIST RMF

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree substitutes ~2 years

Ph.D. substitutes ~5 years

Associate's degree + 2 years

Tools

Nlyte Asset Optimizer

Energy Optimizer (DCIM)

ServiceNow

SolarWinds

Nagios

PRTG

PuTTY

Wireshark

PowerShell

Python

Power BI

MS Visio

SharePoint

AutoCAD

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to design, evaluate, and support core data center infrastructure across compute, racks, power, cooling, and cabling for VA facilities in Austin, TX. You will contribute to site assessments and ensure timely response during design reviews, maintaining up-to-date configuration documentation for reliable operations.

The role requires 5+ years in data center engineering with a Bachelor's in Electrical/Mechanical/Computer Engineering and