Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Electrical / Mechanical Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Peraton's job description. Free.

Tailor your resume to this Electrical / Mechanical Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Peraton's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Electrical / Mechanical Engineer posting at Peraton — free, in seconds.

Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Electrical / Mechanical Engineer posting at Peraton — free, in seconds.
About the Role
Peraton supports the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mission by engineering, operating, and modernizing a nationwide data center portfolio. Our team provides full-lifecycle data center and cloud engineering, 24x7x365 operations and monitoring, and facility infrastructure reporting. Your work will directly impact the systems Veterans depend on for care and benefits.
Responsibilities
- Design and evaluate data center electrical, power, cooling, and mechanical infrastructure supporting capacity, availability, and resiliency requirements.
- Produce and review one-lines, load calculations, short-circuit / coordination / arc-flash inputs, mechanical schematics, and cooling plant layouts.
- Support Assessment & Recommendation Reports across VA facilities.
- Coordinate with CFD and DCIM engineers to align electrical/mechanical decisions with thermal and telemetry realities.
Requirements
- Currently possess or be able to obtain VA Public Trust — High Risk (BI High) / Tier 4 background investigation.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering; 5+ years of data center or mission-critical facility engineering experience.
- Master's degree substitutes ~2 years of required experience; Ph.D. substitutes ~5 years of required experience.
- In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, 4 additional years of relevant experience is acceptable.
- Associate's degree + 2 additional years also accepted for equivalent professional levels.
Skills
- AutoCAD
- MS Visio
- ETAP or SKM PowerTools (short-circuit / coordination / arc-flash)
- Revit MEP
- BMS/DCIM telemetry (Nlyte)
- ITIL v4 service management
- SAFe Agile / Scrum for iterative delivery
- NIST 800-53 / RMF
- ISO 27001
- TIA-942
- ASHRAE TC 9.9
- VA CRISP alignment
- NFPA 70/70E
- OSHA safety practices
- PE (Electrical)
- NFPA CESCP
- EPI CDCP/CDCS
- BICSI RCDD
- PE (Mechanical)
- ASHRAE Datacom certificate
- LEED AP
- ITIL v4 Foundation (Practitioner/Managing Professional a plus)
- SAFe Practitioner or SAFe DevOps
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Master's degree
- Ph.D.
- Associate's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $128,000
Benefits
- Overtime
- Shift differential
- Discretionary bonus
About the Company
- Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
- As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies.
- Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.
- The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces.
- Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.