Systems Engineer – Power Systems & Reliability

Parsons Corporation•Reston, VA

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Systems Engineer – Power Systems & Reliability to join our team! In this role, you will support a globally distributed, mission-critical technical program operating across remote and geographically dispersed sites. Combining traditional systems engineering responsibilities with a specialized focus on power architecture, power quality, and power-related reliability engineering, you will serve as the program’s Power Systems Subject Matter Expert (SME). You will design and improve site power solutions, establish standards, and enable proactive monitoring, while contributing to broader infrastructure and deployment activities. Success in this role will involve reducing repeat power-related outages, improving observability, and delivering measurable reliability improvements. This position requires 25–40% travel to program facilities and deployment staging locations to support site assessments and readiness events.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance (mandatory).
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
8-12+ years of relevant experience in power systems engineering and/or critical facility power design supporting IT/network equipment.
Demonstrated expertise with UPS systems, PDUs, circuiting, grounding, surge protection, load calculations, power capacity planning, and site commissioning practices.
Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements, interfaces, verification, and documentation.
Ability to work in ambiguous environments, drive standardization, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to travel internationally 25-40%.
Must possess an active Passport or obtain one within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting distributed/remote sites with constrained infrastructure and variable power quality.
Familiarity with power monitoring protocols and tooling (e.g., SNMP-enabled UPS/PDU telemetry, environmental sensors).
Experience with reliability engineering methods (FMEA, fault tree analysis, corrective/preventive action programs).
Hands-on experience producing site power standards, installation checklists, and commissioning test procedures.
Knowledge of HVAC/thermal interactions relevant to equipment reliability in small equipment rooms.
Experience with rack-level buildouts, including cabling, labeling, and coordination with facilities teams.

Responsibilities

Lead technical analysis and design of site power architectures supporting compute, networking, and edge equipment in distributed environments.
Perform power requirements analysis, including load estimation, circuiting, UPS sizing, generator interface assumptions, and power distribution.
Define and maintain power design standards and site templates, including rack-level power patterns, redundancy expectations, and commissioning checklists.
Investigate and reduce recurring power-related incidents through root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).
Establish a baseline view of power-related incidents and top failure modes; propose a prioritized reliability roadmap.
Design and implement power observability practices, including instrumentation strategies, telemetry integration, and early warning thresholds.
Integrate critical telemetry into the monitoring stack and produce dashboards highlighting downtime trends, failure modes, and preventive maintenance actions.
Deliver measurable reductions in repeat power-related outages through targeted fixes, preventive maintenance guidance, and improved alerting.
Support system design and integration for distributed sites, including requirements decomposition, interface definition, and deployment readiness.
Contribute to documentation artifacts such as site build packages, logical/physical diagrams, and engineering change proposals.
Partner with cross-functional teams (network, infrastructure, security, operations, field engineering, logistics) to ensure power designs align with operational realities and deployment constraints.