Responsibilities
- Receive, inspect, and validate enterprise hardware deliveries, ensuring systems meet procurement and deployment requirements.
- Commission bare-metal servers, storage, and networking equipment into fully operational development environments.
- Configure virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi or KVM and establish standardized infrastructure baselines.
- Deploy and configure enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NAS), VLANs, operating systems, and foundational networking services.
- Maintain hardware configuration consistency across multiple development sites and subcontractor environments.
- Partner with external systems integrators throughout infrastructure procurement, installation, and acceptance testing.
- Perform power-on validation, hardware acceptance testing, and infrastructure verification before deployment.
- Build clean, production-ready infrastructure environments that can be transitioned to internal DevOps teams for software deployment and automation.
- Document infrastructure standards, configurations, and deployment procedures to support repeatable implementations.
- Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience administering enterprise IT infrastructure, server environments, or data center operations.
- Experience building, configuring, and managing multi-rack server environments supporting software development or automated testing.
- Hands-on experience commissioning enterprise hardware from initial delivery through operational deployment.
- Experience configuring virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi, KVM, or similar hypervisors.
- Experience with enterprise networking concepts including VLANs, switching, routing fundamentals, and storage infrastructure (SAN/NAS).
- Experience supporting infrastructure deployments across multiple locations or geographically distributed environments.
- Comfortable collaborating with software engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams throughout the deployment lifecycle.
- Experience documenting infrastructure standards and maintaining consistent system configurations.
- Hold an active Secret Security Clearance and are eligible to obtain TS/SCI (or are willing and able to obtain one, if applicable).
- Experience achieving and maintaining accredited classified systems through DoW (Department of War) or Intelligence Community Risk Management Frameworks (RMF).
- Have led teams or other engineers in a technical leadership and/or functional leadership capacity.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting government, defense, or classified computing environments.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or SaltStack.
- Experience supporting Kubernetes, GitLab Runners, or containerized development environments.
- Previous experience working with enterprise systems integrators or large-scale infrastructure deployments.
- Familiarity with automated software build environments or “software factory” infrastructure.
- Experience working within secure development environments or multi-site engineering organizations.
Benefits
- Compensation includes competitive salary, meaningful equity ownership, profit sharing, employer 401(k) contribution, and 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, El Segundo, CA, Seal Beach, CA
Additional Information
- 30% travel required, depending on program needs and where the selected candidate resides.
- Must be a US Citizen.
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. TS/SCI security clearance.
