Data Center Standards Engineer Junior

Peraton supports the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mission to deliver timely reliable care and benefits to Americas Veterans by engineering operating and modernizing a nationwide data center portfolio. Our team runs enterprise and regional data centers telecommunications spaces and secure network connections that host the systems Veterans depend on from claims processing and pharmacy fulfillment to appointment scheduling and benefits delivery. We provide full-lifecycle data center and cloud engineering 247365 operations and monitoring DCIM platform administration analytics and facility infrastructure reporting. If you want your engineering operations or analytics work to matter to someone this is where it does.

Position Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data center engineering standards specifications procedures and technical requirements that drive consistent portfolio-wide practices.
• Coordinate standards inputs from electrical mechanical telecom and IT SMEs; publish standards releases on cadence.
• Author reference designs technical briefs and illustrated newsletters supporting engineering knowledge transfer.
• Ensure all published materials meet WCAG 2.0 / PDF/UA-1 accessibility requirements.

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Requirements

• Currently possess or be able to obtain VA Public Trust High Risk (BI High) / Tier 4 background investigation.
• Bachelors degree preferably in Engineering Computer Science or a related field; 2years of standards development or technical documentation experience in an infrastructure context.
• Education substitutions (per Peraton Career & Compensation Framework): Masters degree substitutes 2 years of required lieu of a Bachelors degree 4 additional years of relevant experience is acceptable (Associates degree 2 additional years also accepted for equivalent professional levels).

Desired Skills Tools & Certifications

• Tools: Adobe FrameMaker / Acrobat MS Visio AutoCAD SharePoint MadCap Flare.
• Processes: ITIL v4 service management SAFe Agile / Scrum for iterative delivery NIST 800-53 / RMF ISO 27001 TIA-942 ASHRAE TC 9.9 VA CRISP alignment NFPA 70/70E and OSHA safety practices.; WCAG 2.0 / PDF/UA-1 accessibility; TIA-942.
• Certifications (desirable): BICSI RCDD ( for telecommunications design authorship) STC Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC) Adobe Certified Professional. ITIL v4 Foundation (Practitioner/Managing Professional a plus) SAFe Practitioner or SAFe DevOps.

Work location: Austin VA

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