IT Infrastructure Lead

Peraton • Bethesda, MD

15d

About The Position

Join a team dedicated to protecting the safety and integrity of U.S. air travel. Peraton is seeking an Infrastructure Lead to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will lead a team responsible for infrastructure design, configuration planning, documentation, and technical oversight of subcontracted deployments to ensure solutions meet performance, availability, and resiliency requirements in a NIST 800-53 enclave. This role is central to building and maintaining robust systems that power mission-critical operations and modernization initiatives. Whether you’re supporting safety validation efforts or leading teams on major FAA programs, your work will directly impact the millions of passengers and aviation professionals who rely on safe, efficient airspace operations every day. In this position, you will: Lead a team to design and plan infrastructure systems, ensuring alignment with performance and availability goals. Ensure configuration documentation, technical diagrams, and deployment procedures are fully developed and maintained. Provide technical oversight of subcontractor deployments, ensuring solutions adhere to defined standards and requirements. Execute capacity planning and system optimization efforts to enhance infrastructure resiliency. Lead/collaborate with engineers, architects, and project managers to integrate infrastructure solutions into modernization programs. Oversee troubleshooting and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues. Ensure optimal system performance, implement improvements for scalability and reliability. Ensure NIST 800-53 compliance with security, operational, and regulatory standards. 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. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience.
• Minimum of 5 years management experience.
• Experience building/maintaining NIST 800-53 compliant systems.
• Proven experience leading infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or related roles.
• Proven experience leading server, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies.
• Strong knowledge of performance, availability, and resiliency best practices.
• Experience managing technical documentation and coordinating deployments with subcontractors or external vendors.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in cross-functional, fast-paced environments.
• U.S. Citizenship Required.
• Must have the ability to obtain / maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design and plan infrastructure systems, ensuring alignment with performance and availability goals.
• Ensure configuration documentation, technical diagrams, and deployment procedures are fully developed and maintained.
• Provide technical oversight of subcontractor deployments, ensuring solutions adhere to defined standards and requirements.
• Execute capacity planning and system optimization efforts to enhance infrastructure resiliency.
• Lead/collaborate with engineers, architects, and project managers to integrate infrastructure solutions into modernization programs.
• Oversee troubleshooting and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
• Ensure optimal system performance, implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Ensure NIST 800-53 compliance with security, operational, and regulatory standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees