Physical Security Systems Engineer 2 (Relocation Available

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 9,000 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.

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.

We are seeking a Physical Security Systems Engineer 2 to join our Security and Electronic Systems (SES) business Unit. As part of (SES) Strategic Business Unit you will be part of a team that designs, engineers, integrates, operates and maintains electronic security services inclusive of intrusion detection, access control, biometric authentication, video surveillance, audio visual, it systems, perimeter defense and command and control systems for federal, local and commercial customers across high-growth markets.

As a Physical Security Systems Engineer 2 , you should be able to quickly and thoroughly understand customers’ needs and translate that into a system design, define systems implementation and adoption plans that can be deployed at the customers’ premises, on cloud or at a global scale. This role requires hands on and in the field experience with physical security solutions and systems (ACS, VMS, IDS), networking and deployment best practices.

This role allows the opportunity to become an expert in one or more technology sets in Physical Security:
Access Control, Video Management (CCTV) and Unified Systems, Intrusion Detection, Perimeter Detection Systems, Biometrics and Devices Detection Systems and more. Develop further expertise on vendor software and hardware products, establish and foster vendor relationships, collaborate and work closely with vendor product teams to provide product evaluation feedback and contribute to improving deployed solutions for our customers. Have an understanding of the IT environments needed to operate in and collaborate with network security teams to securely deploy the best solutions.

M.C. Dean provides exciting opportunities to collaborate with teams of Security and Systems Engineers, Technical Specialists, Project Managers, Technicians, System Administrators and other cross-functional teams.

• Research, design and evaluate existing and new physical security solutions against defined requirements and industry best practices.
• Design and develop physical security solutions engineering drawings (CAD/REVIT or others).
• Setup, configuration and integration of security solutions in lab and production environments.
• Perform and manage Pre-Installation, Test and Check-Out (PITCO) on systems designs and equipment in a lab/pre-deployment setting.
• Ensure test lab equipment and software is maintained and kept up to date.
• Develop procedures, setup and configuration guides and playbooks to be followed during deployment and commissioning on site.
• Collaborate with installation, deployment, administration and other cross-functional teams to define standards, provide recommendations and guidance on solution deployments, resolve issues, and improve systems’ features.
• Asist with on-site solutions deployments and commissioning.
• Develop detailed procedures to validate system configuration, data input and data migration. Ensure high data quality ingestion in new and existing systems.
• Organize and prepare detailed documentation of solutions designs, features, test plans, solutions and pilot summaries, deployment plants, configuration and administration guides.
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