Hardware Technician

Location:Columbia, MDType: Onsite (5 days)Travel: 15%

About Us:Sealing Technologies, a Parsons company, innovates and delivers high-performance deployable anywhere technologies that push what's possible at the edge, enabling organizations across the globe to solve complex challenges with speed and confidence. We design, engineer, and deliver products and deployable technologies built for environments where traditional infrastructure falls short.

Position Overview:Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company, is looking to hire a Hardware Technician Lead to install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair the physical IT equipment supporting a strategic DoD program. In this senior role, you will work directly on the hardware — installing and configuring servers, switches, routers, and firewalls, diagnosing and repairing component-level failures, and managing the racks, cabling, and physical infrastructure that keep fielded systems running. You will also serve as the senior technical authority for sustainment, owning reliability analysis, obsolescence planning, and lifecycle support to ensure program systems remain mission ready throughout their operational life.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring servers, switches, routers, firewalls, and other network equipment
• Diagnosing and repairing hardware failures and connectivity issues
• Replacing components such as hard drives, memory, power supplies, network cards, and cables
• Performing server and network equipment installations, upgrades, and replacements
• Managing cabling, racks, patch panels, and physical network infrastructure
• Performing hardware preventive maintenance and inspections
• Tracking equipment, serial numbers, warranties, and IT asset inventory
• Coordinating equipment repairs, replacements, and vendor service calls
• Assisting with server-room/data-center operations, including equipment installation and physical organization
• Following security, safety, backup, and change-management procedures
• Documenting hardware configurations, repairs, installations, and troubleshooting activities
• Drive reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis and improvement across deployed systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of progressive systems, and component-level hardware repair, or sustainment engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading sustainment engineering for fielded hardware or hardware/software integrated systems.
• Experience with reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis and lifecycle sustainment.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting servers, switches, and network equipment.
• Hands-on experience diagnosing and repairing hardware failures at the component level.
• Experience with obsolescence management and DMSMS mitigation.
• Experience leading root cause analysis and corrective action for fielded systems.
• Experience with engineering change management, spares planning, and repair workflows.
• Strong customer-facing communication, and documentation skills.
• Must be able to lift, carry, and move packages weighing up to 50 lbs repeatedly throughout the workday to support delivery order fulfillment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting DoD Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) programs.
• CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, or equivalent hardware certification.
• Experience sustaining deployable or tactical edge computing platforms.
• Experience with lifecycle cost analysis and sustainment metrics reporting.
• Experience with technology refresh and modernization planning for fielded DoD systems.
• Familiarity with configuration management, technical data packages, and BOM-driven sustainment

Sealing Technologies is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status. Working is no longer solely about the job. Here at Sealing Tech, we understand your happiness and health is vital to our success. We are innovative in our approach to cultivating balanced work environments and offer a plethora of added perks. Sealing Tech offers competitive compensation packages, health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement contributions, continuing education budgets, tuition reimbursement, flexible schedules, and generous vacation policies. Other perks include complimentary snacks, drinks & monthly catered lunches, and company retreats and gatherings. Plus, flexible work arrangements, pet friendly offices and quarterly merit bonuses for qualified employees. We are looking for a new member to join our team, take on challenges, be innovative and willing to grow with us. BUILD, SECURE, SOLVE.