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Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications: Skills: Cloud Architectures, DevOps, Testing Certifications: None Experience: 7 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: Make an impact on a mission that matters. At GDIT, we advance the mission with every action—because what we do is bigger than ourselves. As an Operations Team Lead, you will guide a high‑performing DevOps/Operations team responsible for ensuring the security, resilience, and reliability of critical systems hosted in OpenShift. If you’re energized by leading people, solving tough operational challenges, and collaborating directly with mission partners and government customers, this role is for you. This is a Key Personnel position supporting an intelligence customer. We’re looking for a leader who brings strong Operations and Systems Administration expertise, team management experience, excellent communication skills, and enough development/scripting background to help automate, configure, and enhance deployments. What You’ll Do • Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi‑environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support • Prioritize and distribute work across the team, ensuring timely issue resolution and operational excellence • Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and ensure mission outcomes • Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations • Maintain and update operational documentation including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides • Receive code from development teams and complete system builds, hardening, configuration, and deployment automation • Support and enhance CI/CD deployment workflows and security scans • Manage PKI certificates, system configurations, and operational compliance • Develop Helm charts for OpenShift deployments and support Infrastructure as Code practices • Design and monitor user and system metrics to ensure performance, reliability, and readiness across all environments What You’ll Bring Required: • TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph • Bachelor’s degree in IT or STEM Field • 7 years leading teams in operations, sustainment, administration, security, or integration • 5 years implementing DoD/IC cybersecurity requirements • 3 years working with cloud technologies • Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security ) with IAT Level III certification preferred • Experience supporting Agile/SAFe environments • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage users and government customers • Knowledge of containerization, monitoring, logging, networking, and security Desired: • Experience with geospatial system operations • CISSP or CISM • Familiarity with configuration/change management processes • Experience with integrated software delivery, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD), and ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Jira) • Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift • Background in system engineering or project management • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar IaC tools • Ability to automate tasks using Python or Bash • Experience enhancing existing code and contributing to system architecture Why GDIT • Mission‑focused work with real impact • Opportunities to lead, innovate, and shape how critical systems operate • Collaborative teams and a culture built on trust and empowerment • Professional growth and continuous learning • Competitive benefits and industry‑leading support Lead the team that keeps the mission moving. Help secure today and shape tomorrow. Location: Company Site US Citizenship Required 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: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off ● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward. #RoverGSS The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $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 T elecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Springfield Additional Work Locations: USA MO St. Louis 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. Our Identity Verification Process: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes. About Our Work: We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions 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 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc . Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

Requirements

Must-haves

Top Secret/SCI
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Cloud Architectures, DevOps, Testing Certifications:
7 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Make an impact on a mission that matters.
What You’ll Do
Lead and mentor an Operations/DevOps team supporting multi‑environment system sustainment, administration, maintenance, and user support
Prioritize and distribute work across the team, ensuring timely issue resolution and operational excellence
Collaborate directly with users and government customers to understand requirements, communicate system status, and ensure mission outcomes
Perform system administration, troubleshooting, testing, and security operations
Maintain and update operational documentation including SOPs, SLAs, and system guides

Nice-to-haves

Minimum of IAT Level II certification (Security ) with IAT Level III certification preferred
Experience with geospatial system operations
CISSP or CISM
Familiarity with configuration/change management processes
Experience with integrated software delivery, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD), and ticketing tools (ServiceNow, Jira)
Knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift
Background in system engineering or project management
Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar IaC tools
Ability to automate tasks using Python or Bash
Experience enhancing existing code and contributing to system architecture
Mission‑focused work with real impact
Opportunities to lead, innovate, and shape how critical systems operate

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