Cloud & Hosting Infrastructure Lead

GDIT is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Cloud & Hosting Infrastructure Lead to provide technical and operational leadership for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) CIT Hosting and Storage Services Program. This role combines strong infrastructure and cloud expertise with leadership in overseeing complex technology services, developing technical roadmaps, modernizing service delivery, and guiding teams through organizational and technology change.

About the role

This is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days on-site at the customer location in Bethesda, MD. The role requires obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust clearance, including onsite fingerprinting and a background investigation covering personal, criminal, financial, and foreign influence factors.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the technical delivery and evolution of hosting services, including compute, virtualization, storage, backup, database, middleware, cloud infrastructure, IaaS, PaaS, and related capabilities.
• Provide direction and accountability to Team Leads, coordinate execution across traditionally siloed technology areas, and continuously improve infrastructure service design and delivery.
• Collaborate with the Program Manager, Cybersecurity Lead, federal leadership, and other stakeholders to establish the program’s technical direction, operating model, and culture while ensuring hosting services reliably support customer missions.
• Manage team performance for technical managers and/or Team Leads, including accountability, coaching, mentoring, performance management, professional development, recruiting, and leading teams through technology and organizational change.

Requirements

• BS/BA or equivalent experience in an IT-related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant IT experience, including significant leadership responsibility within large, complex enterprise technology environments.
• Broad technical experience across enterprise infrastructure and cloud technologies, with demonstrated knowledge of compute, operating systems, virtualization, storage, backup, databases, networking, application hosting, IaaS, PaaS, AWS, and/or Azure.
• Experience providing technical and operational leadership for a portfolio of enterprise technology services, including establishing technical direction, managing competing priorities, resolving cross-team dependencies, and maintaining accountability for service delivery.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing technology roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, modernization initiatives, and continuous improvement plans across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure or cloud services.
• Proven experience improving technology service delivery through process analysis, value stream mapping, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing changes that reduce delivery time, streamline handoffs, increase automation, and improve customer experience.
• People management experience of technical managers or Team Leads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise hosting, cloud, platform engineering, or infrastructure organizations operating hybrid environments spanning on-premises data centers and AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience supporting application and software development organizations, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle, DevOps concepts, Agile delivery practices, and the infrastructure capabilities needed to support modern application development and delivery.
• Experience applying modern engineering approaches—including Infrastructure as Code, self-service, automation, Agile/DevOps practices, platform engineering, and AI-enabled capabilities—to improve infrastructure operations, engineering productivity, service delivery, and customer experience.
• Experience supporting NIH, biomedical research, life sciences, federal health, or similarly complex and regulated mission environments, with relevant cloud, infrastructure, ITIL, Agile, Lean, or technology leadership certifications.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location, and possibly contractual requirements.

Schedule

• Scheduled weekly hours: 40
• Travel required: Less than 10%
• Telecommuting options: Hybrid (2-3 days on-site in Bethesda, MD)

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental and vision plan options.
• 401(k) plan with pre- and post-tax contribution options and company match.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.