Technical Engineering Lead - TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Technical Engineering Lead, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a strong Technical Engineering Lead joining our team to make a positive impact on the client’s mission. We are seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep expertise across infrastructure, platforms, and application ecosystems spanning cloud and customer environments, and to serve as a technical authority for complex system issues.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations

• Demonstrated experience performing hands-on systems engineering across network, compute, storage, operating systems, middleware, databases, and applications

• Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting as-is infrastructure, platform, and application architecture

• Demonstrated experience creating detail engineering design for modernization, optimization, and transformation initiatives working with System and Cloud Architect

• Demonstrated experience leading and executing cloud and system implementations, migrations, and upgrades

• Ensure systems meet availability, scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements

• Demonstrated experience integrating infrastructure and platforms with DevOps and DevSecOps pipelines

• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex, cross-stack issues within the infrastructure, platforms, and applications.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating across multiple teams and stakeholders to address and escalate complete system issues

• Demonstrated experience developing technical documentation, diagrams, standards and associated documents

• Ability to brief leadership, translate technical issues into business impact

MANDATORY TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS - Candidates must demonstrated hands-on Experience in all the following areas:

Infrastructure & Platforms

• Enterprise networking (e.g., routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers, DNS)

• Storage technologies (e.g., SAN, NAS, object storage)

• Container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

• Linux (Redhat, CentOS) operating systems (administration, hardening, automation)

• IdAM - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) hands-on for AuthN and AuthZ

Cloud & On-Prem Technologies

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)

• Hybrid and on-prem infrastructure design and integration

• Cloud networking, identity, security, and cost optimization

Data & Application Platforms

• Relational and NoSQL databases - relational (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis) databases.

• Web services, APIs, and middleware

• Software development lifecycle 9SDLC) fundamentals

• Event-based messaging systems (e.g., SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ)

Engineering & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code - Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

• Configuration management and scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)

• CI/CD integration with infrastructure and platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitOps, ArgoCD)

• Security best practices and system hardening

• Monitoring & Incident Response: Proficiency with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK Stack, CloudWatch

Architecture & Design

• Ability to create:
• As-is architecture documentation
• T-be architecture and detailed engineering design
• Implementation and migration plans

DESIRED/Preferred Technical Requirements: 

• Observability and monitoring tools (e.g., logging, metrics, tracing)
• Zero Trust and modern security architectures
• Data analytics, AI/ML platform exposure
• Experience supporting production or mission-critical environments
• Relevant certifications (e.g., cloud, systems, security, or architecture)
• Knowledge of machine learning platforms (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, SageMaker)
• Familiarity with big data ecosystems (e.g., Hadoop, Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery)
• Strong background in ITIL processes and agile methodologies
• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator, Kubernetes CKS/CKAD, ITIL Foundation

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or other IT-related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Experience: 15+ years
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Location : Tyson's, VA (On Customer Site)

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

15 + years of related experience

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

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required