TECHNICAL LEAD HOSTING

Clearance Level
None
Category
Cyber and IT Risk Management
Location
Bethesda, Maryland
(Onsite Workplace)
Key Skills For Success

Cloud Migrations

Hosted Services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Storage Services

REQ#: RQ220462
Public Trust: NACI (T1)
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being and support of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

DEVSECOPS ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL

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.

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.

Qualifications

  • Education: 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.

  • Certification: Possess an ITIL v3 or ITIL 4 Foundation or a higher certification in either category.

  • Security clearance level: the ability to obtain a Public Trust

Skills

  • 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.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

  • Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

  • Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

  • Rewards: Full benefits, wellness programs, 401K matching, competitive salary, and paid time off.

  • Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in program management at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results.

Work Requirements
Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

ITIL v3 Foundation | PeopleCert - PeopleCert

Travel Required

None

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
View information about benefits and our total rewards program.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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