Data Center Operations Team Lead

About the role

GDIT seeks a Data Center Manager for our federal client in their Infrastructure team. Transform technology into opportunity as a Data Center Manager with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

Responsibilities

Demonstrated experience managing Data Center Operations similar in size, complexity, dynamics, availability and scope to that of the contract. This includes:

• Demonstrated experience managing mainframe and server physical and logical security, disaster recovery failover, business continuity, and batch job scheduling in mainframe and distributed (i.e., Windows and UNIX) operating system environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, complex server environments containing over 2,000 physical servers that host over 15,000 physical or virtual servers.
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing server consolidation and virtualization efforts on Windows, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux in a production operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise class storage across server technologies (e.g., Windows, Solaris, Red Hat, VMware) implementing operational best practices, provisioning standards, and storage migrations and optimizations.
• Demonstrated experience with implementing ITIL standards and processes in a large, highly available, dynamic data center operation.
• Demonstrated experience managing a 7x24x365 Data center that monitors a national service and manages faults and failures proactively and reactively.
• Demonstrated experience managing IBM Z10 mainframe with z/OS Operating System.
• Demonstrated experience translating between business requirements and technical implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with systems engineering in the context of a large, complex infrastructure.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other scientific or technical discipline directly related to this labor category (or additional equivalent experience in lieu of a degree)
• 10+ years of working experience managing server and support services, including at least 3 years in an IT outsourcing environment to manage Contractor Personnel performance of the Services.
• ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation Certified
• Excellent analytical, organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including ability to interact professionally with executives, customers, vendors and department staff
• Project management experience is a plus
• U.S. Citizenship and background investigation is required; you must have a current clean financial background.

Skills

This role requires technical skills and attitude for success, dedication and commitment.

Benefits

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
• 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
• 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
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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.

Schedule

This is a full-time position, scheduled to work 40 hours per week, onsite in Washington DC 8-5 M-F, with flexibility to support issues or planned activities after hours, weekends and holidays as needed. Less than 10% travel is required.