Description
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Lead Distribution Systems Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise OSP/ISP, fiber optic, and communication closet engineers and technicians, ensuring coordinated and integrated engineering across all disciplines
- Manage Agency and Subcontractor labor, including daily direction, quality assurance, performance oversight, and conflict resolution
- Serve as primary engineering liaison to Government POCs and base stakeholders
- Coordinate base access, security requirements, installation schedules, materials, and personnel deployment
- Validate engineering deliverables including drawings, design inputs, reports, and risk assessments
- Lead design reviews, planning sessions, and strategic decision-making for DS workstreams
- Identify and mitigate engineering risks, design conflicts, and installation challenges
- Support program leadership with execution planning, reporting, and stakeholder engagement
- Maintain expert-level knowledge of AF/SF standards, TIA/EA, UFC, I3A, OSP/ISP, CEL requirements, and fiber technologies
Requirements:
- 10+ years in telecommunications engineering, network infrastructure, OSP/ISP design, or related disciplines
- 5+ years leading multi-discipline engineering teams in field or deployment environments
- Experience delivering large-scale communications modernization projects for DoW, federal, or large enterprise environment
- Experience managing subcontractor labor and agency field teams
- Familiarity with AF/SF installation processes, base coordination, and engineering standards
- Strong background in OSP construction, fiber design/testing, and telecommunications room infrastructure
- Hiring/Working location will be remote but will require approximately 75%-100% travel.
- Working location will be on onsite supporting the daily implementation efforts at Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks Alaska.
- This work will be for 7+ months with potential opportunities for movement onto other initiatives upon completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading on-site teams performing AFNET, DISA, or DoW network infrastructure/modernization programs
Certifications:
- BICSI OSP (Outside Plant Designer)
- FOA CFOT (Fiber Optic Technician)
- OSHA 30 or equivalent safety certification
- Security+ CE (DoW requirement for base network environments)
- Clearance: Active Secret clearance.
Benefits:
- 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: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace