Tech Specialist - Redmond, WA; Hybrid

Overview

About M.C. Dean

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission‑critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us?

Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward‑thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

This position plays a key role in supporting the design, implementation, and sustainment of enterprise‑level physical security and IT systems. As a Tech Specialist 2 you will work closely with the Design/Install and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) teams to install, configure, test, and maintain systems, provide technical support, and ensure compliance with ICD 705 and other government security standards. This role requires strong technical problem‑solving skills, hands‑on system integration experience, and the ability to lead tasks independently while collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

Essential responsibilities and activities include but are not limited to:

• Diagnose and remediate complex systems availability, performance, and information assurance issues in a dynamic, always‑on, mission‑critical environment.
• Assist with the analysis, evaluation, engineering, and implementation of system improvements, automation, optimization, and deployments.
• Document designs, and changes to infrastructure environments including physical/logical drawings, engineering design plans, implementation plans, transition plans, test plans, failover plans, and standard operating procedures/playbooks.
• Perform security updates to hardware and software to ensure the security posture across all systems implemented and managed.
• Research, prototype, and develop emerging technologies by working closely with industry partners and OEMs to implement the latest and best‑in‑breed capabilities to meet the customers’ emerging needs.

Position / Candidate Requirements

• Education:
  
  Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical, or a Related Engineering Discipline or Information Technology degree.
  • Master’s Degree and 0+ Years of experience or
  • Bachelor’s Degree and 2+ Years of experience or
  • Associate’s Degree and 6+ Years of experience or
  • HS Diploma and 8+ years of experience
• Strong engineering & administration experience with most of the following core platforms and services:
  • Access Control Systems such as CCURE 9000 or Lenel OnGuard.
  • Video Management Systems such as Milestone XProtect or Genetec.
  • Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems such as Senstar and Southwest Microwave.
  • Other Electronic Security Systems such as Zenitel, Gatekeeper, HID, Certi Path, or D3.
  • Hypervisors such as ever
    
    Run, VMware ESXi and vSphere.
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016‑2025 Deployment and Administration.
  • Microsoft Windows 11 Deployment and Administration.
  • Microsoft Windows Server Features such as: DNS, DFS, DHCP and KMS
  • Active Directory and defining, implementing, and maintaining Group Policy.
  • Data center networking fundamentals (experience with software defined data center networks a plus.
  • Hyperconverged storage fundamentals.
  • Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining highly secure and reliable solutions that meet all organizational Cybersecurity and Information Assurance requirements.
  • Experience performing security scans, performing system updates, and applying security configurations, e.g., DISA STIG/SRGs to system hardware and software.
  • Experience with Data Center Automation and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), API management, scripting languages…