Data Center Architect

Overview: Why Acuity?: Looking to make a difference, to help keep people safe, or even to save lives through your work with technology? Join Acuity’s team of experts to have an impact on our government’s critical missions. Acuity, Inc. is a consulting firm that supports federal agencies in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation. Responsibilities:

• Architect enterprise-level data center solutions including SAN, compute clusters, and software-defined networking.
• Design high-availability and disaster recovery architectures for physical and virtualized federal environments.
• Lead the technical design of data center consolidation and modernization efforts for cabinet-level agencies.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure physical and virtual infrastructure meets NIST 800-53 and FISMA High standards.
• Develop technical specifications for hardware procurement and facility power/cooling requirements.
• Engineer hybrid-cloud connectivity architectures linking physical data centers to GovCloud environments.
• Provide technical oversight for the implementation of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data center operations and infrastructure design.
• 5+ years of experience designing secure infrastructures for federal or highly regulated organizations.
• Deep expertise in VMware, Hyper-V, and storage technologies (NetApp, Dell/EMC).

Preferred Certifications

• Federal & Security: CISSP.
• Domain-Specific: VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) or NetApp Certified Data Administrator.
• Architecture/Management: TOGAF.

Technical Skills

• Virtualization: VMware vSphere, ESXi, NSX, vSAN.
• Storage: SAN/NAS architectures, Fibre Channel, iSCSI.
• Networking: Cisco ACI, software-defined data centers (SDDC).
• Hardware: Blade servers, HCI platforms (Nutanix, Dell VxRail).

Regulatory & Domain Expertise

• Demonstrated expertise in applying NIST 800-53 physical and logical security controls.
• Technical implementation of FISMA High requirements for on-premises data centers.
• Knowledge of ICD 705 standards for secure facility (SCIF) operations.

Clearance Requirement

• Active security clearance (Secret or Top Secret)

 

 

Min: USD $108,000.00/Yr. Max: USD $221,000.00/Yr. Salary Range: The salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.