Platform Engineering Manager
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. Must not repeat job title. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to parse the job description.
Sections:
- About the role: The paragraph after "Job Description:" maybe: "Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineering Team Lead and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Lead the Platform Engineering team responsible for end‑user platform engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and desktop/mobile operating system engineering. You will set technical direction, manage platform roadmaps, coordinate with vendors and stakeholders, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable end‑user computing services across the federal customer’s environment."
Also there is "MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT" paragraph: could be part of About the role or separate? Could be considered part of About the role. We'll include as prose.
- Responsibilities: The "ADDITIONAL ROLE-SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES" bullet list: Platform Engineering & OS Baseline Management, Software Packaging & Distribution, Endpoint Protection Engineering, Image Engineering & Management, Platform Break‑Fix & Tier 3 Support. Each has sub-bullets.
We need to output
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a
with each responsibility as - and inside maybe nested
for subpoints? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. We'll do nested.
- Requirements: The "WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED" includes Education, Required Experience, Required Technical Skills, Preferred, Location, US Citizenship Required, etc. Also "Experience: 10 + years of related experience" earlier. Also "ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement". Also "Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience." Also "5+ years diverse IT experience in: ..." list. Also "Required Technical Skills Expertise in OS engineering, image engineering, Group/Modern Policies, secure baselines (including DISA STIGs), and endpoint protection. Proficiency in endpoint privilege management. Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell preferred)." Also "Location On Customer Site – Arlington, VA". Also "U.S. Citizenship Required". Also "Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None" etc but those are minor metadata; we can fold into short
or drop. Probably we can include a short paragraph for clearance and citizenship.
- Qualifications: Might overlap with Requirements. But we need to decide sections. The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills). So we need to decide what goes where. Usually Qualifications includes education, certifications, experience. Skills includes technical skills. Requirements may include mandatory items like citizenship, clearance, etc. We'll allocate:
- About the role: introductory paragraphs.
- Responsibilities: the detailed responsibilities list.
- Requirements: mandatory items: US Citizenship Required, Clearance (None), Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4) maybe? Actually that is a requirement: Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4). Also "Experience: 10 + years of related experience". Also "ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement". Also "Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience." Also "Location On Customer Site – Arlington, VA". Also "Travel Required: Less than 10%". Also "Telecommuting Options: Onsite". Also "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40". That could go to Schedule section.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment". Also maybe "Preferred: ..."? Also "Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment". Also maybe "Preferred: ..."? Not much else.
- Skills: the Required Technical Skills list and maybe also the list of diverse IT experience (Microsoft Intune etc). Actually those are skills/experience. We'll put them under Skills.
- Benefits: The "GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:" bullet list and the "Total Rewards At GDIT:" paragraph. Also "401K with company match Comprehensive health and wellness packages Internal mobility team..." etc. Also the paragraph about benefits package. We'll extract benefits.
- Pay: The likely salary range: "$128,039 - $173,229." Also note it's not guarantee. We'll include that as Pay section.
- Schedule: "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Arlington". Also maybe "Additional Work Locations:" none. We'll include schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We'll need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Remove lines about Equal Opportunity Employer etc.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineering Team Lead and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Lead the Platform Engineering team responsible for end‑user platform engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and desktop/mobile operating system engineering. You will set technical direction, manage platform roadmaps, coordinate with vendors and stakeholders, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable end‑user computing services across the federal customer’s environment.
As a Platform Engineering Manager, the work you do at GDIT directly supports the mission by ensuring secure, stable, and high‑performing end‑user computing platforms across thousands of devices and applications. You will drive modernization, automation, image lifecycle management, secure baseline development, and endpoint protection improvements, enhancing performance, reducing incidents, and improving user experience. Lead the team responsible for desktop/mobile OS engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and unified endpoint management. Partner with security teams, engineering teams, OEM vendors, application owners, and customer stakeholders to resolve complex issues, plan upgrades, and maintain compliance. Guide platform modernization, secure baseline development, automation, and lifecycle management activities.
Responsibilities
- Platform Engineering & OS Baseline Management
- Develop and maintain desktop and mobile OS baselines.
- Create Group Policies, Modern Policies, scripts, and technical documentation.
- Define OS, application, encryption, security, and image requirements.
- Build and maintain Core Images and profiles across multiple device models and OS versions.
- Support OS lifecycle management, quarterly updates, testing, and validation.
- Software Packaging & Distribution
- Script, package, and test applications for Windows and macOS.
- Manage deployment tools and self‑service portals.
- Support offline deployment methods when needed.
- Endpoint Protection Engineering
- Engineer, deploy, and troubleshoot endpoint protection agents (e.g., McAfee, Carbon Black).
- Ensure central management consoles and modules function properly.
- Support SOC workflows, log collection, and malware containment.
- Image Engineering & Management
- Develop test and release plans for image validation.
- Coordinate customer application testing and image approval.
- Maintain offline OS media and support remote build processes.
- Platform Break‑Fix & Tier 3 Support
- Provide Tier 3 support for escalated desktop/mobile issues.
- Troubleshoot OS, application, and patching issues alongside customer teams.
Requirements
U.S. Citizenship Required.
Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4).
Experience: 10+ years of related experience.
ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience.
Location: On Customer Site – Arlington, VA.
Qualifications
Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment.
Skills
- Expertise in OS engineering, image engineering, Group/Modern Policies, secure baselines (including DISA STIGs), and endpoint protection.
- Proficiency in endpoint privilege management.
- Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell preferred).
- 5+ years diverse IT experience in:
- Microsoft Intune
- Windows 11 + Modern Policies
- Virtual Desktop environments
- MS Defender for Endpoint
- Microsoft 365 applications
- CrowdStrike EDR
- End‑user device engineering/support
- Windows Server, desktop apps, Wintel hardware
- Cloud technologies and SaaS solutions
- End‑user platform management tools
Benefits
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.
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.
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
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40. Travel Required: Less than 10%. Telecommuting Options: Onsite. Work Location: USA, VA, Arlington.
We must ensure no extra sections like "About Our Work" etc. We omitted that.
Check for any repeated content: We included "Location: On Customer Site – Arlington
for prose. We need to parse the job description. Sections: - About the role: The paragraph after "Job Description:" maybe: "Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineering Team Lead and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Lead the Platform Engineering team responsible for end‑user platform engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and desktop/mobile operating system engineering. You will set technical direction, manage platform roadmaps, coordinate with vendors and stakeholders, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable end‑user computing services across the federal customer’s environment." Also there is "MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT" paragraph: could be part of About the role or separate? Could be considered part of About the role. We'll include as prose. - Responsibilities: The "ADDITIONAL ROLE-SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES" bullet list: Platform Engineering & OS Baseline Management, Software Packaging & Distribution, Endpoint Protection Engineering, Image Engineering & Management, Platform Break‑Fix & Tier 3 Support. Each has sub-bullets. We need to output
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a
- with each responsibility as
- and inside maybe nested
- for subpoints? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. We'll do nested.
- Requirements: The "WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED" includes Education, Required Experience, Required Technical Skills, Preferred, Location, US Citizenship Required, etc. Also "Experience: 10 + years of related experience" earlier. Also "ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement". Also "Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience." Also "5+ years diverse IT experience in: ..." list. Also "Required Technical Skills Expertise in OS engineering, image engineering, Group/Modern Policies, secure baselines (including DISA STIGs), and endpoint protection. Proficiency in endpoint privilege management. Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell preferred)." Also "Location On Customer Site – Arlington, VA". Also "U.S. Citizenship Required". Also "Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None" etc but those are minor metadata; we can fold into short
or drop. Probably we can include a short paragraph for clearance and citizenship. - Qualifications: Might overlap with Requirements. But we need to decide sections. The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills). So we need to decide what goes where. Usually Qualifications includes education, certifications, experience. Skills includes technical skills. Requirements may include mandatory items like citizenship, clearance, etc. We'll allocate: - About the role: introductory paragraphs. - Responsibilities: the detailed responsibilities list. - Requirements: mandatory items: US Citizenship Required, Clearance (None), Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4) maybe? Actually that is a requirement: Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4). Also "Experience: 10 + years of related experience". Also "ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement". Also "Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience." Also "Location On Customer Site – Arlington, VA". Also "Travel Required: Less than 10%". Also "Telecommuting Options: Onsite". Also "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40". That could go to Schedule section. - Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment". Also maybe "Preferred: ..."? Also "Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment". Also maybe "Preferred: ..."? Not much else. - Skills: the Required Technical Skills list and maybe also the list of diverse IT experience (Microsoft Intune etc). Actually those are skills/experience. We'll put them under Skills. - Benefits: The "GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:" bullet list and the "Total Rewards At GDIT:" paragraph. Also "401K with company match Comprehensive health and wellness packages Internal mobility team..." etc. Also the paragraph about benefits package. We'll extract benefits. - Pay: The likely salary range: "$128,039 - $173,229." Also note it's not guarantee. We'll include that as Pay section. - Schedule: "Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA VA Arlington". Also maybe "Additional Work Locations:" none. We'll include schedule. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. Now produce HTML fragment. We'll need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Remove lines about Equal Opportunity Employer etc. We'll produce something like:
About the role
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Platform Engineering Team Lead and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you. Lead the Platform Engineering team responsible for end‑user platform engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and desktop/mobile operating system engineering. You will set technical direction, manage platform roadmaps, coordinate with vendors and stakeholders, and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable end‑user computing services across the federal customer’s environment.
As a Platform Engineering Manager, the work you do at GDIT directly supports the mission by ensuring secure, stable, and high‑performing end‑user computing platforms across thousands of devices and applications. You will drive modernization, automation, image lifecycle management, secure baseline development, and endpoint protection improvements, enhancing performance, reducing incidents, and improving user experience. Lead the team responsible for desktop/mobile OS engineering, image management, endpoint protection, software distribution, and unified endpoint management. Partner with security teams, engineering teams, OEM vendors, application owners, and customer stakeholders to resolve complex issues, plan upgrades, and maintain compliance. Guide platform modernization, secure baseline development, automation, and lifecycle management activities.
Responsibilities
- Platform Engineering & OS Baseline Management
- Develop and maintain desktop and mobile OS baselines.
- Create Group Policies, Modern Policies, scripts, and technical documentation.
- Define OS, application, encryption, security, and image requirements.
- Build and maintain Core Images and profiles across multiple device models and OS versions.
- Support OS lifecycle management, quarterly updates, testing, and validation.
- Software Packaging & Distribution
- Script, package, and test applications for Windows and macOS.
- Manage deployment tools and self‑service portals.
- Support offline deployment methods when needed.
- Endpoint Protection Engineering
- Engineer, deploy, and troubleshoot endpoint protection agents (e.g., McAfee, Carbon Black).
- Ensure central management consoles and modules function properly.
- Support SOC workflows, log collection, and malware containment.
- Image Engineering & Management
- Develop test and release plans for image validation.
- Coordinate customer application testing and image approval.
- Maintain offline OS media and support remote build processes.
- Platform Break‑Fix & Tier 3 Support
- Provide Tier 3 support for escalated desktop/mobile issues.
- Troubleshoot OS, application, and patching issues alongside customer teams.
Requirements
U.S. Citizenship Required.
Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4).
Experience: 10+ years of related experience.
ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience.
Location: On Customer Site – Arlington, VA.
Qualifications
Preferred: experience in a managed services IT environment.
Skills
- Expertise in OS engineering, image engineering, Group/Modern Policies, secure baselines (including DISA STIGs), and endpoint protection.
- Proficiency in endpoint privilege management.
- Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell preferred).
- 5+ years diverse IT experience in:
- Microsoft Intune
- Windows 11 + Modern Policies
- Virtual Desktop environments
- MS Defender for Endpoint
- Microsoft 365 applications
- CrowdStrike EDR
- End‑user device engineering/support
- Windows Server, desktop apps, Wintel hardware
- Cloud technologies and SaaS solutions
- End‑user platform management tools
Benefits
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.
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.
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
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40. Travel Required: Less than 10%. Telecommuting Options: Onsite. Work Location: USA, VA, Arlington.
We must ensure no extra sections like "About Our Work" etc. We omitted that. Check for any repeated content: We included "Location: On Customer Site – Arlington - Platform Engineering & OS Baseline Management
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid nested lists. We'll do nested.
- Requirements: The "WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED" includes Education, Required Experience, Required Technical Skills, Preferred, Location, US Citizenship Required, etc. Also "Experience: 10 + years of related experience" earlier. Also "ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 certification is a customer requirement". Also "Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of applicable experience." Also "5+ years diverse IT experience in: ..." list. Also "Required Technical Skills Expertise in OS engineering, image engineering, Group/Modern Policies, secure baselines (including DISA STIGs), and endpoint protection. Proficiency in endpoint privilege management. Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell preferred)." Also "Location On Customer Site – Arlington, VA". Also "U.S. Citizenship Required". Also "Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None" etc but those are minor metadata; we can fold into short
- and inside maybe nested