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Cloud Infrastructure Manager

GDIT Herndon, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$165,750 - $224,250 per year

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Description

Advance how our customers operate while advancing your career as a Cloud Infrastructure Manager at GDIT. You'll collaborate with a team driven to improve agency operations, providing IT services for the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Biometric Identification System, Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology system, and Office of Biometric Identity Management.

At GDIT, people are the differentiator. As a Cloud Infrastructure Manager, you'll lead the Infrastructure team responsible for operating and maintaining infrastructure components in production and non-production environments. You'll manage infrastructure across a government data centre, Equinix data centres, and multiple cloud environments, including AWS GovCloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary Infrastructure team responsible for 24x7 operations and maintenance of on-premises and cloud infrastructure
  • Establish and enforce best practices, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for infrastructure operations, maintenance, and incident response
  • Prioritise and manage work intake, including O&M activities, upgrades, migrations, and modernisation projects
  • Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, automation, and customer service across the Infrastructure team
  • Oversee day-to-day O&M of approximately 2000 server endpoints and associated storage, backup, and infrastructure services and tools
  • Ensure high availability, performance, capacity, and resilience of the supported infrastructure
  • Manage lifecycle activities, including provisioning, patching, upgrades, decommissioning, and refresh of compute, storage, and virtualisation components
  • Oversee backup, archival, and recovery operations for petabyte-scale data
  • Partner with application, development, and security teams to ensure cloud and on-prem infrastructure meet performance, scalability, compliance, and security requirements

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of related experience
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science degree
  • Experience in infrastructure engineering/operations, including large-scale, mission-critical environments
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS GovCloud, OCI, or similar)
  • Strong technical depth across compute, storage, virtualisation, and cloud
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full-flex work week
  • Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Skills

Required

  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Data Center Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Engineering
  • IT Operations Support
  • Team Management
  • Linux
  • AIX administration
  • enterprise virtualization (VMware)
  • large-scale storage/SAN environments

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering
  • 8–10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering/operations
  • 3–5+ years of experience leading technical teams or managing infrastructure operations
  • experience managing infrastructure supporting high-volume transactional systems
  • direct experience operating infrastructure workloads in a secure, regulated federal environment hosted in AWS GovCloud (US) and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • ITIL certification
  • Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certifications)

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/USA-VA-Herndon/Cloud-Infrastructure-Manager--SRF-xxxx-_RQ228649-1

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