Senior Data Center Engineer - 2053

Position:Senior Data Center Engineer
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Salary Range: $112,000 - $122,000 per year
Clearance: Clearable to Q

KeyLogic is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Data Center Engineer to join our team on a major National Department of Energy Laboratory in Albuquerque. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of data center operations and maintenance, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of the infrastructure. This role involves monitoring systems, troubleshooting issues, and implementing best practices to maintain a secure and efficient data center environment.
On occasion will require to work flexible hours and support on-call duties and shift work.
Work will be performed on-site.

Responsibilities

- Perform maintenance of the existing data center cooling infrastructure including but not limited to: CDU's, cooling doors, CRAC units, and Thermosyphons.
- Install, maintain and troubleshoot data center cooling infrastructure.
- Test configuration changes on the HPC environment virtually in GNS3
- Convert HPC devices and HPC services to EMS for out of band network access
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades (service packs, patches, security configurations).
- Collaborate with Cybersecurity to implement network security measures.
- Monitor system resource utilization and assist in capacity planning.
- Provide Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting for network issues.
- Adhere to configuration and change management policies.
- Respond to customer requests related to network services.

Qualifications

- BS/BA with 3 years job-related experience, in lieu of degree 9 years of job-related experience.
- Must be US Citizen
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE "Q" Clearance.
Required Skills:
- Must understand water treatment, filtration, and testing for closed look, liquid cooling systems.
- Must have experience designing and implanting mechanical and containment systems to support high-diversity data centers.
- Must have experience operating Nlyte DCIM software for asset tracking, capacity planning, power monitoring, alarm implementation, outage simulation, and network tracing.
- Demonstrated experience with TCP/IP, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), switching technologies, VLANs, VPNs, and related networking concepts.
- Strong desire to learn new technologies
- Team Player
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desired Skills/Certifications:
- Net+
- Sec+
- CCNA