Sr Network/Systems Engineer Data Center

About the role

GovCIO is hiring a Data Center Engineer to support a modernization effort. The position is located in Hampton, VA and will be fully onsite.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead end‑to‑end data center migration strategies, including on‑premises to on‑premises transitions, data center consolidations, and hybrid or cloud‑adjacent migrations.
• Assess current data center environments, dependencies, and risks to create detailed migration roadmaps and execution plans.
• Architect target‑state data center designs that align with business objectives, security standards, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, network, storage, security, and application teams to coordinate and execute migration activities.
• Establish standards, best practices, and architectural frameworks to support ongoing data center operations and future scalability.
• Lead technical decision‑making across virtualization platforms, storage solutions, networking architectures, backup strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Oversee migration execution, including cutover planning, validation activities, and post‑migration optimization.
• Identify and mitigate performance, availability, data integrity, and security risks throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Produce comprehensive documentation such as architecture diagrams, runbooks, migration plans, and operational handoff materials.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering and operations teams.
• Investigate the technical capabilities of company services and competing equipment or solutions.
• Stay abreast of developments in hardware and software.
• Generate quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning and design, and ensure requirements comply through formal verification methods.
• Translate high‑level product development strategies into network and system requirement specifications and work with other engineering disciplines to develop detailed implementation requirements.
• Establish and coordinate development of standards, practices, and procedures related to network and system development.
• Design interfaces and integrate network and system elements so they function as a cohesive whole.
• Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
• Provide customer liaison and support for business development activities to understand and shape requirements.
• Coordinate the planning, design, and installation of equipment using engineering and programming knowledge.
• Participate in system conceptual design and document design concepts.
• Design, create, and build network services, equipment, and devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Top Secret/SCI clearance required.
• Deep expertise in data center infrastructure, including compute, storage, and networking.
• Strong understanding of virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper‑V, KVM, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing and executing large‑scale data center migrations.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and hybrid/cloud‑adjacent architectures.
• Experience with storage architectures (SAN, NAS, object storage).
• Advanced networking knowledge, including routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Familiarity with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Strong understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk mitigation.
• Ability to develop architectural standards, frameworks, and documentation.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools (PowerShell, Ansible, etc.).
• Proficiency in dependency mapping, workload analysis, and capacity planning.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, CySA+, CND).

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Strong problem‑solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and cross‑team collaboration abilities.
• Ability to lead technical teams and provide mentorship.
• Experience with DoD networks (NIPR, SIPR, JWICS).
• Experience working in fast‑paced, transformation‑driven environments.

Pay

Salary range: USD $230,000.00 – $240,000.00 per year.