System Engineer - Tysons, VA

Overview

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.

As part of the SES Strategic Business Unit, you will design, engineer, integrate, operate and maintain electronic security services including intrusion detection, access control, biometric authentication, video surveillance, audiovisual, IT systems, perimeter defense, and command & control systems for federal, local, and commercial customers across high‑growth markets. Your responsibilities include:

• Assist with the analysis, evaluation, engineering, and implementation of system improvements, optimization, and deployments.
• Develop and implement technology and solution roadmaps to meet customer strategic goals and mission priorities.
• Develop and implement designs for large, complex multi‑site data center infrastructure and virtualized environment solutions.
• Document designs, and changes to data center infrastructure environments including physical/logical drawings, engineering design plans, implementation plans, transition plans, test plans, and failover plans.
• Implement, test, and operate large complex data center and virtualized compute, storage, and network environments.
• Research, prototype, and develop emerging technologies working closely with industry partners and OEMs to implement the latest and best-in‑breadth capabilities to meet customer emerging needs.

Clearance/Citizen Type: Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship. Ability to obtain a Top‑Secret clearance.

Education/

Experience:

• Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a Related Engineering Discipline.
• Bachelor's Degree and 7+ Years of progressive experience.
• Experience developing and implementing hardware and software solutions for data center and virtual infrastructure technologies.

Strong engineering experience with the following core platforms and services:

• VMware ESXi and vSphere
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019
• Microsoft Windows 10 Deployment and Administration
• DNS, DFS, and DHCP
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• Microsoft SCCM with Operating System Deployment (OSD)
• Data center networking fundamentals (experience with software‑defined data center networks a plus).
• Data center storage fundamentals (experience with SAN protocols and NAS protocols)
• Virtualizing enterprise applications (Active Directory, MS SQL, RHEL, MS SharePoint, Unified Communications, etc.).
• Developing highly secure and reliable solutions that meet all organizational cybersecurity and information assurance requirements.
• Data Center Automation and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), API management, scripting languages including Power Shell, Python, JSON, Bash.
• Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level‑II requirements.
• Strong oral, written, and presentation skills with the ability and experience communicating directly with executive leadership.
• Developing cost estimates and work breakdown structures for the design and implementation of complex projects.
• Performing technical cross‑training/coaching of junior colleagues.
• Working with multidisciplinary teams, time management, organization skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
• Strong MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio skills (plus).
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.
• Desired/advantageous qualifications:
  Experience with Hyperconverged architectures such as Cisco Hyper Flex, Nutanix, etc.
• Experience with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Fabric Interconnects and other similar technologies.
• Experience with Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure, e.g., Citrix Zen Desktop,…