Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cloud Migrations, Hosted Services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Storage Services
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

DEVSECOPS ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL

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.

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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA MD Bethesda

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.