Sr Data Center Engineer Lead

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

• Serve as the senior technical authority for a defined DCCE domain (e.g. critical facilities resiliency or portfolio modernization).
• Drive the multi-year technical roadmap and standards for the domain; provide design authority on major initiatives.
• Represent DCCE at senior VA technical forums; brief senior VA leadership on strategy and outcomes.
• Mentor Advisors and Lead Associates; guide the engineering practices technical maturity.

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Requirements

• Currently possess or be able to obtain VA Public Trust High Risk (BI High) / Tier 4 background investigation.
• 10 years of related experience
• Supervisory experience

Desired Skills Tools & Certifications

• Tools: Data center monitoring and management tools including Nlyte Asset Optimizer / Energy Optimizer (DCIM) ServiceNow (ITSM/CMDB) SolarWinds Nagios PRTG PuTTY Wireshark PowerShell Python Power BI MS Visio and SharePoint. plus AutoCAD TileFlow familiarity.
• 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.; TIA-942 VA Handbook 7002.
• Certifications (desirable): PE (Electrical or Mechanical) BICSI RCDD Uptime Institute ATD/ATS EPI CDCP/CDCS/CDCE LEED AP CEM. ITIL v4 Foundation (Practitioner/Managing Professional a plus) SAFe Practitioner or SAFe DevOps.

Work location: Austin TX

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.