Data Center Engineer (TS/SCI w/ Poly Required) - Washington DC; Reston VA; Colorado Springs CO; Tampa FL; St Louis, MO; Huntsville AL

Are you looking to make an immediate impact where you can help our clients solve their business challenges? Deloitte’s Core Business Operations (CBO) portfolio operates at the center of our client’s business. By joining our team, you could help C-suite and program leaders transform their organization and accelerate mission execution through emerging and disruptive technologies, innovative business models, retooled program operations and industry-driven solutions.

Recruiting for this role ends on June 23,2025.

Work you’ll do

• Oversee health, uptime, and performance of data center systems (servers, storage, network, cooling)
• Perform regular checks, maintenance, and troubleshooting for physical and virtual servers
• Maintain equipment inventories, asset tracking, and documentation of change management for hardware and configurations
• Deploy, configure, and manage servers, hypervisors, and virtualization platforms per organizational standards
• Update system configurations, Operating System patches, firmware, and security baselines
• Use monitoring tools to assess system health, storage, network performance, and environmental metrics
• Identify and resolve performance issues, optimizing resources to meet organizational needs
• Develop and implement backup strategies, disaster recovery plans, and high availability configurations
• Conduct regular backup testing and recovery drills for business continuity
• Support data center network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers)
• Ensure compliance with security standards and implement network security measures
• Maintain documentation for operations, including network diagrams, hardware configurations, and recovery procedures
• Provide regular updates on metrics, incidents, and operational improvements
• Collaborate with engineering/project teams on infrastructure projects, upgrades, and capacity planning

The team 

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology, and outcomes—is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

The Application Modernization and Innovation offering is comprised of experienced professionals who help guide clients through their most complex technology challenges. This can include the delivery of large-scale software applications & integrated systems, the development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) & other integrations solutions, and the delivery of technology enablement to support CIO services transformation. Our Application Modernization and Innovation offering focuses on key client issues that impact the core business. We provide operational value, modernized mission solutions, and enhanced technology innovation.

Qualifications  

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required. 
• Ability to be onsite 100% of the time in one of the locations listed: Washington DC; Reston, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; Tampa, FL; St. Louis MO and Huntsville, AL
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. 
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
• Proven experience at least 5+ years in Data Center Engineering.

Preferred:

• Proficient in data center management software, virtualization (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V), and monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Nagios)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors tha