Hardware Engineer 3

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Join us on this journey as we execute this mission-critical contract providing architecture, engineering, integration, and maintenance across a multiple classification Enterprise network. Your effort and expertise are crucial to the success and execution of this impactful mission. This opportunity supports an Enterprise IT contract with a team of Customer Service Specialists, Database Engineers, Information Systems Security Officers, Information Systems Security Engineers, SharePoint Developers, Systems Engineers, Network Engineers, and IT Engineers responsible for the architecture, engineering, integration, operations, maintenance and sustainment of multi-level Enterprise IT environment.

Job Description: The Hardware Engineer III provides senior-level engineering expertise for complex, mission-critical hardware and network infrastructure supporting DOD/Government operations. This position leads the assessment, integration, deployment, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and sustainment of hardware across geographically distributed and highly secure environments.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience solving complex infrastructure challenges, conducting site assessments, developing engineering solutions, and providing technical leadership to hardware engineering teams. The Level 3 Hardware Engineer shall possess the following capabilities: Engineer, integrate, configure, test, and sustain enterprise hardware supporting mission-critical operations.

Conduct site surveys to assess physical infrastructure, equipment, connectivity, environmental conditions, and operational requirements. Assess and document existing network and hardware configurations, site-unique requirements, dependencies, limitations, and infrastructure conditions. Develop and maintain site drawings, engineering diagrams, network documentation, and as-built documentation for each supported site.

Evaluate compute, storage, server, network, and data center hardware for performance, reliability, security, and mission suitability. Analyze complex hardware and infrastructure problems and develop solutions that improve reliability, availability, and maintainability. Lead hardware integration, technology refresh, modernization, deployment, and transition activities.

Conduct MTBF and MTTR analysis to identify reliability trends, recurring failures, operational risks, and opportunities for improvement. Support data center and site infrastructure activities, including equipment installation, rack configuration, cabling, power, environmental requirements, and system testing. Perform hardware lifecycle management, including technology evaluation, configuration, maintenance, refresh, replacement, and disposition.

Develop and maintain engineering documentation, technical specifications, configuration standards, procedures, and site documentation. Conduct hardware testing, validation, performance assessments, failure analysis, and operational readiness assessments. Identify hardware risks, obsolescence, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve system resiliency.

Provide senior-level technical guidance and Tier 3 troubleshooting for complex hardware and infrastructure issues. Direct and coordinate the technical work of other hardware engineers assigned to projects, ensuring engineering activities, deliverables, schedules, and technical standards are met. Train and mentor hardware engineers, technicians, and site personnel on hardware systems, configurations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational procedures.

Collaborate with systems, network, cybersecurity, operations, and other engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that support evolving mission requirements. Support engineering reviews, technical assessments, site deployments, system upgrades, and operational transitions.

Ensure hardware solutions comply with applicable security, configuration management, engineering, and mission requirements. Serve as a senior technical authority for hardware projects from initial assessment and design through deployment, acceptance, and sustainment. Prepare functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions.

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. 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. Conduct site surveys; assesses and documents current site network configuration and site-unique requirements. Develop hardware installation schedules based upon set-up, integration, and test timelines. Train site personnel in proper use of hardware.

Recommend specifications for hardware acquisitions. Prepare engineering plans and site installation Technical Design Packages. Prepare drawings documenting as-built configurations at each site. Prepare site installation and test reports. Configure computers, communications devices and peripheral equipment. Prepare installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Organize and directs hardware installations across multiple sites. Design and verify test harnesses/simulated interfaces for all test and integration phases. 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.

Prepare Mean-Time-Between-Failure and Mean-Time-To-Repair analyses. Analyze operational data to identify choke points, failure modes, and other data for design or maintainability improvements. Plan all phases of hardware project to include schedules, budgets, and maturation of technical performance parameters. Organize and direct teams to address critical system failures that potentially derive from hardware component failure or misconfiguration.

Work closely with system engineering and test engineering to develop and validate hardware portion of test plans, test procedures, throughput models, failure analysis, and risk analysis. Develop proposals for the program manager to reduce or avoid customer costs in up-front acquisition costs or operational/disposal costs.

Direct the work of other hardware engineers on a project requiring a variety of hardware engineering activities and tasks.

Qualifications

20+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 25+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree. One (1) year experience in Enterprise IT systems and projects. Managing and performing integration operations and maintenance activities on multiple system domains of various security classification levels and diverse user bases concurrently.

Extensive experience engineering, integrating, testing, troubleshooting, and sustaining complex hardware and network infrastructure. Demonstrated experience with enterprise compute, storage, networking, server, and/or data center environments. Extensive experience conducting site surveys and documenting existing infrastructure and site-specific requirements.

Experience developing engineering drawings, network diagrams, site documentation, and as-built documentation. Experience performing hardware reliability, failure, MTBF, and MTTR analysis. Demonstrated ability to lead technical activities and direct the work of other engineers on projects. Strong understanding of hardware architecture, system integration, performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability.

Experience working in highly secure, mission-critical, or classified environments. Ability to develop and interpret technical specifications, engineering documentation, diagrams, and procedures. Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical leadership skills. Certifications Required: Security + CE is required.

Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph