Data Center Infrastructure Engineer
Washington dc, DC
Category: Engineer
Industry: Government
Reference ID: JN -022026-105479
Date Posted: 04/12/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/REYqTZ
Description:
Onsite in Washington, DC or Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB)
Our client seeks a Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to design and sustain mission-critical environments for federal programs. The role will operate and improve secure, high-availability data center infrastructure across servers, storage, networking, and power systems. The engineer will apply hands-on expertise to strengthen reliability, resiliency, performance, and operational excellence while collaborating across teams in high-visibility settings.
Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident. Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Top Secret clearance. This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Salary: $180,000 - $235,000/ yr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Use enterprise data center technologies to manage and operate servers, storage, networking, and power systems supporting mission-critical federal environments.
- Support and sustain high-availability operations by monitoring infrastructure health, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting complex hardware and facility issues.
- Design, implement, and improve data center infrastructure solutions that increase reliability, performance, and resiliency.
- Participate in Agile execution, planning, and technical discussions with immediate hands-on contribution.
- Identify risks, constraints, and capacity concerns and communicate mitigation strategies and recommendations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute infrastructure changes safely with minimal operational impact.
- Apply best practices for security, availability, and operational excellence in secure, high-visibility environments.
- Establish and maintain customer trust through disciplined execution, ownership, and technical excellence.
Experience Requirements:
- Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
- DoD 8140 certification aligned to the 451 System Administrator work role (e.g., Security+, Cloud+, SSCP, CASP+, or CISSP).
- 8+ years designing, implementing, and managing geographically dispersed data center infrastructure in enterprise or mission-critical environments.
- Proven experience ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency of data center operations, including servers, storage, networking, power, and environmental resource requirements.
- Hands-on administration of virtualized data center platforms, including VMware or equivalent enterprise virtualization technologies.
- Operational management of compute, storage, and network infrastructure, including capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle management.
- Experience supporting high-availability data center operations, including monitoring, fault isolation, and incident response.
- Ability to contribute immediately with minimal ramp-up in a mission-critical operational environment.
- Required technical certifications include VMware VCP-DCV or equivalent data center platform certification and Security+.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering field. Relevant experience may substitute where appropriate.
- Security+ certification.
- VMware VCP-DCV certification or equivalent data center platform certification.
- Cloud+, SSCP, CASP+, or CISSP certifications.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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