Overview Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nations most important work. Were a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nations most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselvesto respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers. Perspecta works with US government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many waysnot only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter. Perspectas talented and robust workforce14,000 strongstands ready to welcome you to the team. Lets make an impact together. Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories Responsibilities This potential position is expected to be funded in March. The contractor will work closely with Government Technical Directors to provide systems engineering support to drive innovation and efficiencies. Responsibilities include: Evaluating new products, methodologies, and agency policies to continually improve data center services while reducing cost and customer turn-around Working on architecture documents to forge new milestones to allow data center offerings stay relevant Actively participate in future roadmap decisions for storage, network, HPC, and server support Analysis of issues, including capacity planning for HPC-specific solutions such as Lustre fabric and high-speed networks Providing assistance, as needed, to engineering teams to resolve tomorrows HPC technology challenges Designing, documenting, and leading network modernization as the data centers continue to retire spanning tree and adopt the more flexible spine/leaf architecture Evaluating and determining future Software Defined Network solutions With networks, firewalls, and HPC network requirements all being in different organizations, driving continuity among the teams and array of devices Working with Lustre Interconnects Team to make continual refinements as the high-speed storage fabric grows to multiple data centers within each campus Driving automation across data centers Performing network architecture and design Providing strategic planning Driving change through automation Partner with SPD Architects to design the next-generation SPD high-speed and low-speed TCP networks Qualifications Individual Capabilities/Experience Required: Bachelors degree or advanced degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or other related discipline plus at least 20 years of systems engineering experience. A Masters degree or PhD may be substituted for two years of experience. A high school diploma or GED plus 24 years of systems engineering experience would also be acceptable. Needed skills: Self-starting individual Ability to write Ansible, Python, and other scripting languages Ability to think holistically Excellent oral and written communication skills Position requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph Options