KBR, Inc

Data Center Engineer

KBR, Inc$129K — $194K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret / SCI clearance required
  • 8 years of experience with BS/BA or 3-5 years with MS/MA or 0-2 years with PhD
  • Proficient in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering for physical and virtual hosting environments
  • Experience with VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and classified Government clouds
  • Must have current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification

Responsibilities

  • Review and analyze current infrastructure to identify improvements
  • Design and build secure host & tenant environments for infrastructure services
  • Maximize capacity of physical resources through virtual infrastructure design
  • Support private cloud, active-active data center operations
  • Develop automation practices for resource provisioning
  • Identify security actions and key performance indicators for reporting
  • Create Service Catalog Items for business and IT technical services

Benefits

  • On-site working environment in Annapolis Junction, MD
  • Minimal travel requirement
  • Standard working hours
  • Opportunities for bonuses, commissions, or other compensation forms
  • Possibility of additional benefits such as sign-on bonuses and relocation assistance
Full Job Description

Title:

Data Center Engineer

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.

  • Key responsibilities include:
    • 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
    • The candidate will 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
    • The qualified candidate will also 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:$129,700 - $194,600 (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.

About KBR, Inc

KBR, Inc is an American engineering, procurement, and construction company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company provides services to customers in the energy, chemical, and government sectors, among others. KBR has a global presence, with operations in over 40 countries. The company was founded in 1901 as M.W. Kellogg Company and has undergone several name changes and mergers since then. KBR is committed to delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to its customers while also being a responsible corporate citizen.
Learn more about KBR, Inc
Size
28,000 employees
Market Cap
$7.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$72 million
Founded
1919
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$5.7 billion
NASDAQ

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