Senior Data Center Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Data Center Engineer to join our team on a major National Department of Energy Laboratory in Albuquerque. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data center operations and maintenance, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of the infrastructure. This role involves monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and implementing best practices to maintain a secure and efficient data center environment.

On occasion will require to work flexible hours and support on-call duties and shift work.

Work will be performed on-site.

Perform maintenance of the existing data center cooling infrastructure including but not limited to: CDU's, cooling doors, CRAC units, and Thermosyphons.
• Install, maintain and troubleshoot data center cooling infrastructure.
• Test configuration changes on the HPC environment virtually in GNS3
• Convert HPC devices and HPC services to EMS for out of band network access
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades (service packs, patches, security configurations).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to implement network security measures.
• Monitor system resource utilization and assist in capacity planning.
• Provide Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting for network issues.
• Adhere to configuration and change management policies.
• Respond to customer requests related to network services.

• BS/BA with 3 years job-related experience
• In lieu of degree 9 years of job-related experience is applicable.
• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy Q clearance.
• Must understand water treatment, filtration, and testing for closed look, liquid cooling systems.
• Must have experience designing and implanting mechanical and containment systems to support high-diversity data centers.
• Must have experience operating Nlyte DCIM software for asset tracking, capacity planning, power monitoring, alarm implementation, outage simulation, and network tracing.
• Demonstrated experience with TCP/IP, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), switching technologies, VLANs, VPNs, and related networking concepts.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies
• Team Player
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desired Skills/Certifications:

• Net+
• Sec+
• CCNA

About Us:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.