# Data Center Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Harrogate, North Yorkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00-$166,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The National Security Sector at Leidos is seeking an experienced, focused professional to serve as a Data Center Systems Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your experience to support our customer's mission.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting best-in-class Data Center Systems Engineering operations in a dynamic enterprise environment for a variety of customer-driven emphasis items.

**Access Control Management:**

- Manage the sites' Data Center Access Control program on behalf of the site DCM

- Develop and implement workflow processes to manage all access requests in compliance with host agency policies and procedures

- Develop and maintain access control processes and procedures in coordination with stakeholders

- Develop and maintain the sites' data center training programs

- Implement security badge updates

- Coordinate and resolve access request issues

- Develop and manage site rack access control program as necessary

- Develop and distribute data center access metrics as required

**Configuration Management:**

- Lead and facilitate Data Center Systems Engineering support

- Develop, maintain, and distribute required configuration management documentation and tools

- Develop, maintain, and distribute required equipment metrics from Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and other site data center configuration management data sources in support of site planning and integration activities

- Collect and manage 'rack level' power and environmental data, and distribute to site and enterprise stakeholders when required

- Advise and support System Engineering transition requirements of large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of complex network environments with geographically distributed components

- Implement community policies and guidance consistent with information system requirement analysis, transition planning, and research and assistance

- Maintain data storage requirements within the data center and cloud to meet or exceed customer requirements

- Coordinate, facilitate, and verify Data Center Management and Control/Facility Management/Electrical and Mechanical Systems

- Collect and maintain the Original Equipment Manufacturer unique equipment specification sheets and distribute to DMD to support development of enterprise DCIM templates

- Support business process improvement and proposal development activities

- Perform Quality Assurance inspections for equipment rack integration activities (site integration standard compliance, installation, and removal, etc.) and assignment of system level liens with site DC impacts

- Other related supporting duties as required

**Basic Qualifications:**

- U.S. citizen with Current TS/SCI and Polygraph

- Experience with Enterprise Data Center Management and Operations

- Knowledge of data center standards and best practices

- Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience

- Mission-specific technical knowledge and operations experience

- Three or more years of Data Center experience managing large and complex projects in the customer environment

- Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Expert knowledge of and ability to apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts in support of the ITIL Framework Service Transition process

- Ability to work independently or under generalized supervision with strong interpersonal and analytical skills

- Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations

- Possess a solid understanding of systems engineering and development

- Be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs

## Skills

### Required
- Data Center Management
- Configuration Management
- Access Control Management
- Enterprise Data Center Operations
- ITIL Framework Service Transition

### Nice to have
- Systems Engineering
- Analytical Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Technical Principles
- Theories and Concepts

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