Hardware Engineer 2 (APT - 020)

Description

Serving Maryland and the Greater Washington D.C. area, SageCor Solutions (SageCor) is a growing company bringing complete engineering services and true full lifecycle System Engineering services to areas requiring (or desiring) nationally-recognized expertise in high performance computing, large data analytics and cutting edge information technologies. 

Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph required.

The ideal candidate for the Hardware Engineer 2 position will fit the following:

Lab Manager – Hardware 2 facilitates and manages Lab Environments, which includes some System Administrator responsibilities. Provides Lab usage coordination, provisioning of lab resources (Requirements gathering, maintain VMs, servers/workstations, networks, storage and administering system upgrades/downgrades, etc.) and develop and enforce LAB SOPs.

Provide hardware engineering expertise to analyze complex hardware systems, hardware design, architecture, network design and other technical hardware issues. Procure and perform acceptance testing on equipment. Provide hardware maintenance support, both preventative and remedial. Deploy, install, and implement hardware at Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside Continental United States (OCONUS). Prepares specifications for hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements. Conduct site surveys. Prepares engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages. Organize and direct hardware installations. Configure (and document configuration of) computers, networking devices and various peripheral equipment. Prepare site installation and test reports. Ensure that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements. Prepare reports and recommendations concerning existing and emerging hardware technologies. Provide specific input to the hardware components of system design to include end-user devices, servers, networking devices, data storage devices, and specialized processors. Assist Program Management Office (PMO) in estimating, reporting, and planning engineering tasks.

Basic Qualifications:

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required.  
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. 
• Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. 
• IAT Level II Certification (Security+, etc.) and familiarity with Microsoft Visio (or similar tools).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Support Linux and Windows server and workstation environments - operating systems, services and hardware dependencies
• Provide expertise building, maintaining and provisioning virtualization architectures (Hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual storage, etc.)
• Utilize and provide planning/operations guidance and direction in the use of collaboration, scheduling and tasking tools & technologies (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, etc.)
• Analyze hardware specifications and system/subsystem requirements to conceive and document a practical design for hardware components to include servers, network devices, transmission media, storage devices, user interface devices, and special processors
• Prepare functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions
• Ensure that problems with operational hardware have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements
• Assist with preparing installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides
• Recommend specifications for hardware acquisitions
• Develop hardware & software installation schedules based upon dependencies, set-up, integration, and test timelines
• Train site personnel in proper use of hardware & software
• Analyze and recommend hardware specifications for project-unique or modified commercial hardware
• Assist with building simulations of proposed systems and provides hardware throughput analyses to system engineers
• Design and verify test harnesses/simulated interfaces for all test and integration phases
• Analyze operational data to identify choke points, failure modes, and other data for design or maintainability improvements

Clearance Requirements:

A TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations.

SageCor Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.