Infrastructure Engineer

Barrow Wise Consulting; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to support a DHS project and assess federal IT environments across data centers, networks, cloud, and end-user services.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of federal or defense IT experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and familiarity with IT governance frameworks such as NIST, FISMA, and ITIL. Remote collaboration with onsite meetings in the DC area are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting federal agencies or defense organizations.
• Experience in data center, cloud modernization, and IT operations.
• Experience in cloud modernization, cybersecurity, or data platform assessments.
• DevSecOps or application delivery evaluation experience.
• Service management / ITSM process reviews.
• Dashboard reporting, analytics, or data governance experience.
• Background in IT audit, IT operations assessment, or federal consulting.
• Familiarity with FITARA, OMB A-11/A-130, FISMA, TIC 3.0, FedRAMP, Section 508, and Zero Trust.
• Working knowledge of NIST, ITIL, PMI, and GAO best practices.
• Experience reviewing IT operations, infrastructure, application delivery, help desk services, reporting, or PPM functions.
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess reliability, resilience, and health of federal IT environments.
• Review data centers, networks, cloud environments, end-user computing, monitoring, and resilience.
• Develop findings, recommendations, and a prioritized roadmap for improvement.
• Prepare executive briefings, working session materials, and final audit reports.
• Collaborate with client teams onsite or remotely as needed, including coordination with federal stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Written communication

Presentation skills

Synthesize findings

Organization

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ITSM tools

PPM tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

Enjoy problem-solving, need a venue to display your creativity, and emerging technologies pique your interest; if so, Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is for you. As a multi-disciplined leader, you understand the gifts that set you apart from everyone else. Demonstrate innovative solutions to our clients. Join Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC today.

Responsibilities:

The Infrastructure Engineer will support Barrow Wise's DHS project and perform the following duties:

• Assess the reliability, resilience, and health of federal IT environments
• Conduct independent evaluations of infrastructure operations across data centers, networks, cloud, and end-user services
• Review data centers, networks, cloud environments, end user computing, monitoring, and resilience
• Evaluate reliability, availability, capacity, continuity, and recovery practices
• Identify infrastructure risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities
• Contribute to current-state assessments and gap analysis
• Conduct structured interviews with IT leadership, business stakeholders, and operational teams
• Review policies, SOPs, architecture documents, inventories, SLAs, PPM artifacts, dashboards, performance reports, and prior audits
• Perform lightweight technical reviews of monitoring tools, configurations, ITSM systems, and PPM tools as appropriate and approved
• Analyze operational and project metrics, including incident volumes, resolution times, change success rates, project delivery performance, and dashboard usage
• Assess maturity, identify strengths and gaps, and document root causes across people, process, tools, governance, and culture
• Develop findings, recommendations, and a prioritized roadmap for improvement
• Prepare executive briefings, working session materials, and final audit reports
• Support optional implementation of the future state
• Collaborate with client teams onsite or remotely as needed, including coordination with federal stakeholders
• Work Remotely; attend meetings in person in the DC Area

An ideal candidate has the following:

• U.S. Citizenship, MD/DC/VA resident preferred
• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• 5+ years of experience supporting federal agencies or defense organizations within:
• Data Center, cloud modernization, and IT operations
• Cloud modernization, cybersecurity, or data platform assessments
• DevSecOps or application delivery evaluation
• Service management / ITSM process review
• Dashboard reporting, analytics, or data governance
• Background in IT audit, IT operations assessment, or federal consulting
• Familiarity with federal governance and compliance frameworks such as FITARA, OMB A-11/A-130, FISMA, TIC 3.0, FedRAMP, Section 508, and Zero Trust
• Working knowledge of NIST, ITIL, PMI, and GAO best practices
• Experience reviewing IT operations, infrastructure, application delivery, help desk services, reporting, or PPM functions
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills
• Ability to synthesize findings into clear, actionable recommendations
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-focused environment.

Join the team at Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC, for a fulfilling and engaging experience! Our team is dedicated to providing innovative solutions to our clients in an ethical and diverse work environment. We offer competitive compensation packages, excellent benefits, and opportunities for growth and advancement. Barrow Wise is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBT are welcome to apply.

Our employees stand behind Barrow Wise's core values of integrity, quality, innovation, and diversity. We are confident that Barrow Wise's core values, business model, and team focus create positive career paths for our employees. Barrow Wise will continue to lead the industry in delivering new solutions to clients and persevere until the client is overjoyed.