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M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

System Engineer 3

System AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTysons, VA, USA$104.2k - $130.3k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree and at least five years of progressive experience.
  • Experience developing and implementing hardware and software solutions for data center and virtual infrastructure technologies.
  • Strong engineering experience with VMware ESXi and vSphere; Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and 2019; Windows 10 deployment and administration; DNS, DFS, and DHCP; Active Directory and Group Policy; Microsoft SCCM with Operating System Deployment; data center networking and storage fundamentals; SAN and NAS protocols; and virtualizing enterprise applications such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft SharePoint, and Unified Communications.
  • Experience developing highly secure and reliable solutions that meet organizational cybersecurity and information assurance requirements.
  • Experience with data center automation and Infrastructure as a Service, API management, and scripting languages including PowerShell, Python, JSON, and Bash.
  • Meet Department of Defense 8570 IAT Level-II requirements.
  • Strong oral, written, and presentation skills, including experience communicating directly with executive leadership.
  • Demonstrated experience developing cost estimates and work breakdown structures for the design and implementation of complex projects.
  • Demonstrated experience performing technical cross-training and coaching of junior colleagues.
  • Demonstrated background working with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Demonstrated time-management and organizational skills to meet deadlines and quality objectives.
  • Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.
  • Ability to perform the physical and communication tasks described, including extended screen use and sitting, reaching, finger dexterity, listening, speaking, reading, and understanding others' speech.

Responsibilities

  • Assist with analyzing, evaluating, engineering, and implementing system improvements, optimization, and deployments.
  • Develop and implement technology and solution roadmaps that meet customer strategic goals and mission priorities.
  • Develop and implement designs for large, complex, multisite data center infrastructure and virtualized environment solutions.
  • Document data center infrastructure designs and changes, including physical and 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 with industry partners and original equipment manufacturers to implement capabilities that meet customers' emerging needs.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with software-defined data center networks.
  • Strong Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio skills.
  • Experience with hyperconverged architectures such as Cisco HyperFlex and Nutanix.
  • Experience with Cisco Unified Computing System, Fabric Interconnects, and similar technologies.
  • Experience with virtualized desktop infrastructure such as Citrix XenDesktop or VMware Horizon.
  • Large on-premises storage engineering and administration experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, or similar platforms.
  • Experience designing and deploying collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint.
  • Experience designing and deploying SQL database infrastructure such as Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Experience engineering and implementing data center and campus area networks and security stacks.
  • Experience engineering and implementing platforms and services in a software-defined network environment.
  • Experience with Department of Defense IT security requirements, including DISA STIG/SRGs.
  • Understanding of Department of Defense standards and best practices.
  • Vendor certifications in VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, or similar technologies.

About the Company

M.C. Dean

Designs and deploys secure mission-critical infrastructure

M.C. Dean designs, builds, operates, and maintains integrated cyber-physical systems for mission-critical facilities, secure environments, and large enterprises. Its work spans electrical power, security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audio-visual, and IT systems, all coordinated through management platforms that support long-term operation and sustainability. The company works end-to-end: it engineers solutions, installs them, and then runs and maintains them to ensure continuous, secure, and resilient performance. What sets it apart is its ability to provide comprehensive, turnkey technology and infrastructure services for critical environments—combining physical systems with digital management to create secure, automated facilities. The goal is to deliver automated, secure, and resilient power and technology systems and the platforms needed to manage them over the long term.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Tysons, VA
Founded
1949

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