TECHNICAL LEAD HOSTING
About The Position
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a DevSecOps Engineer Sr Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As the Technical Lead Hosting, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the customer. This program delivers critical hosting and storage solutions for NIH, HHS, and the VA, offering both secure public and private cloud options. The program provides architectural consulting, systems integration, and IT service management, with a strong focus on maintaining operational continuity and ensuring disaster recovery, aligned with federal cybersecurity requirements and strategic priorities. The Technical Lead Hosting platform will be responsible for providing leadership across both engineering and operational functions to deliver a unified hosting platform capability. Bring your program management expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline is desired OR 10+ years of experience leading enterprise hosting programs supporting both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure services, including application hosting, storage, and backup solutions.
- Possess an ITIL v3 or ITIL 4 Foundation or a higher certification in either category.
- The ability to obtain a Public Trust.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise hosting programs supporting both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure services, including application hosting, storage, and backup solutions.
- Proven expertise in cloud technologies and service delivery models, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and cloud migration strategies.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated provisioning of infrastructure and platform services.
- Experience designing and implementing cloud hosting strategies, including development of service offerings, technical roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.
- Demonstrated leadership of large, cross-functional engineering and operations teams (30+ personnel), including technical leads, engineers, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
- Experience supporting mission-critical systems requiring high availability, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations.
- Demonstrated experience supporting federal cybersecurity requirements, including Risk Management Framework (RMF), Assessment and Authorization (A&A), and coordination with cybersecurity stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience supporting NIH CIT Hosting and Storage Services (HSS) or similar federal enterprise hosting environments.
Nice To Haves
- Cloud Migrations
- Hosted Services
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Storage Services
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, design, and execution of enterprise hosting platform services across hybrid environments, including private cloud, public cloud, IaaS, PaaS, and cloud migration offerings.
- Oversee integrated engineering and operations teams delivering secure, scalable, and resilient hosting solutions for enterprise and scientific workloads.
- Drive cloud modernization initiatives, including cloud readiness assessments, migration planning, and implementation of standardized platform architectures and service offerings.
- Provide technical leadership for platform engineering, including development of automated provisioning, Infrastructure-as-Code, and CI/CD-enabled deployment pipelines.
- Direct operations of hosting environments, ensuring high availability, performance optimization, and adherence to ITIL-based service management practices ( e.g., monitoring, incident, and change management).
- Collaborate with cybersecurity stakeholders to support RMF, A&A processes, and compliance efforts, ensuring platform environments meet federal security requirements.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to Government leadership, guiding architecture decisions, technology strategy, and continuous improvement of hosting platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with NIH CIT stakeholders, system administrators, and engineers to ensure performance, scalability, and security of the hosting environment.
Benefits
- Full benefits
- wellness programs
- 401K matching
- competitive salary
- paid time off
- variety of medical plan options
- Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
