Cloud & Hosting Infrastructure Lead

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1) Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications: Skills: Cloud Hosting, People Management, Technical Leadership, Technology Roadmap Certifications: None Experience: 10 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No Job Description: GDIT is looking for a Cloud & Hosting Infrastructure Lead to join our National Institutes of Health (NIH) CIT Hosting and Storage Services Program. We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking technology leader to provide technical and operational leadership across a broad portfolio of enterprise hosting services spanning on-premises infrastructure and public cloud. Our ideal candidate combines strong infrastructure and cloud expertise with proven leadership experience overseeing complex technology services, developing technical roadmaps, modernizing service delivery, and leading teams through significant organizational and technology change. Location: This is a HYBRID role with 2-3 days on customer site in Bethesda MD. This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications Responsibilities: As a senior leader within the program, you will be accountable for the technical delivery and continued 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 how infrastructure services are designed and delivered. Work closely with the Program Manager, Cybersecurity Lead, federal leadership, and other stakeholders to help establish the program’s technical direction, operating model, and culture while ensuring hosting services reliably support the application, data, and scientific missions of our customers. Manage team performance for technical managers and/or Team Leads, including establishing accountability, coaching and mentoring leaders, performance management, professional development, recruiting, and leading teams through significant technology and organizational change. Required Qualifications: 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 and techniques such as 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. #NIHCIT #GDITFedHealthJobs The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. 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: Less than 10% T elecommuting Options: Hybrid Work Location: USA MD Bethesda Additional Work Locations: 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 . Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans