Job Description

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Hardware Engineer 2 to join our team in the Columbia and Hanover, MD area.

The ideal candidate for the Hardware Engineer 2 position will fit the following:
Lab Manager – Hardware 2 facilitates and manages Lab Environments, which includes some System Administrator responsibilities. Provides Lab usage coordination, provisioning of lab resources (Requirements gathering, maintain VMs, servers/workstations, networks, storage and administering system upgrades/downgrades, etc.) and develop and enforce LAB SOPs. Provide hardware engineering expertise to analyze complex hardware systems, hardware design, architecture, network design and other technical hardware issues. Procure and perform acceptance testing on equipment. Provide hardware maintenance support, both preventative and remedial. Deploy, install, and implement hardware at Continental United States (CONUS) and Outside Continental United States (OCONUS). Prepares specifications for hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements. Conduct site surveys. Prepares engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages. Organize and direct hardware installations. Configure (and document configuration of) computers, networking devices and various peripheral equipment. Prepare site installation and test reports. Ensure that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements. Prepare reports and recommendations concerning existing and emerging hardware technologies. Provide specific input to the hardware components of system design to include end-user devices, servers, networking devices, data storage devices, and specialized processors. Assist Program Management Office (PMO) in estimating, reporting, and planning engineering tasks.

Minimum Requirements:

• Fourteen (14) years’ experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• IAT Level II Certification (Security+, etc.) and familiarity with Microsoft Visio (or similar tools).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Support Linux and Windows server and workstation environments - operating systems, services and hardware dependencies
• Provide expertise building, maintaining and provisioning virtualization architectures (Hypervisors, virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual storage, etc.)
• Utilize and provide planning/operations guidance and direction in the use of collaboration, scheduling and tasking tools & technologies (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, etc.)
• 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
• Prepare functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions
• 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
• Recommend specifications for hardware acquisitions
• Develop hardware & software installation schedules based upon dependencies, set-up, integration, and test timelines
• Train site personnel in proper use of hardware & software
• 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
• Design and verify test harnesses/simulated interfaces for all test and integration phases
• Analyze operational data to identify choke points, failure modes, and other data for design or maintainability improvements

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

ManTech International Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with ManTech through its online applicant system, please contact ManTech's Corporate EEO Department at (703) 218-6000. ManTech is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer - minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ManTech's utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ManTech does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.

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