Cloud Engineer Team Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Cloud DevOps Team Lead to guide a team delivering secure and reliable cloud services for NIH CIT Hosting and Storage. The role focuses on cloud engineering, DevOps, and modernization, balancing standardization with flexible customer-centric solutions.

Location: remote with onsite Bethesda, MD preferred 3 days a week; candidates within 60 miles of the customer site may go onsite as needed.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in an IT-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of related IT experience.
• Experience leading a cloud/DevOps team and day-to-day execution of engineering, service delivery, Agile development, and project activities.
• Proven people management: recruiting, hiring, performance management, mentoring.
• Experience with cloud engineering, DevOps, modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day oversight for your team, delegate, prioritize, and resolve blockers for cloud DevOps services.
• Oversee service catalog, identify customer demands, develop technical strategy and vision, and drive it with the team.
• Collaborate with Project Managers/Scrum Masters for transparent communications on timelines, resources, risk, and status.
• Drive continuous improvement to deliver new services and ways of working with customers.
• Oversee personnel management: recruitment, performance reviews, coaching and mentoring.
• Coordinate incident management and post-incident reviews with stakeholders.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Engineering

People Management

Project Support

Service Delivery

Education

BS/BA in IT or related field

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

Job description

Req ID: RQ226632

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: Software Engineering

Skills: Agile Methodology,Engineering,People Management,Project Support,Service Delivery

Experience: 10 + years of related experience

Job Description

GDIT is looking for a Cloud DevOps Team Lead to join our National Institutes of Health (NIH) CIT Hosting and Storage Services Program.

We are seeking a forward-thinking technical leader who can inspire and develop teams while ensuring the delivery of secure, reliable, and innovative cloud services and solutions. Our ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with cloud engineering and DevOps expertise, supported by experience designing, automating, and delivering solutions across AWS and Azure. This leader will provide clear direction and accountability for day-to-day operations, Agile execution, and project activities, while applying their technical understanding to guide architecture, engineering decisions, and complex customer solutions. They will foster a culture of collaboration, automation, continuous improvement, and innovation; empower team members to grow and succeed; and work closely with customers to understand their demands and guide their cloud adoption and modernization journeys. The successful candidate will balance standardization with flexibility, driving reusable cloud services while enabling tailored solutions when customer requirements demand them.

Location: Remote working candidates will be considered, however the preference is for candidates to go onsite to Bethesda, MD 3 days out of the week. If you're within 60 miles of 'customer site', we would look for you to go onsite, as needed.

_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

• Provide day-to-day oversight for your team by delegating and prioritizing task execution, resolving roadblocks, and ensuring execution is efficient andtimelyfor the delivery of allclouddevopsservices.
• In partnership with federal and program leadership,be a subject matter expert andoversee your team’s service catalog; to includeidentifyingcustomerdemands, owning and developing the technical strategy andvision, and rallying your team to turn the vision into reality.
• Work closely with Project Managers/Scrum Masters to ensure transparent communications on project timelines, project execution, resource requirements, risk management, and status reporting. Occasionally step into project manager roleyou’reyour team’sstrategic projects based on need.
• Drive innovation and incorporatecontinuous improvementactivities into your team’s execution to deliver new services and new ways of working to keep pace with futurecustomerdemands.
• Oversee personnel management including staff recruitment, hiring, performance management, training, and mentoring for all team members.
• Provide oversight for incidents, coordinating with resolution parties andestablishingeffective communication between stakeholders during and after closure of the incident to include after-action reporting.

Required Qualifications

• BS/BA and10+ years of experience, or equivalent experience, in an IT-related discipline.
• Experience overseeing a portfolio ofcloud ortechnology services and leading a technical team’s day-to-day execution, includingengineering, service delivery, Agile development, and project activities.
• People management experience, including recruiting, hiring, performance management, professional development, training, and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Experience leadingcloud engineering, DevOps, modernization, or other complex technicalinitiatives from planning through successful delivery.

Required Skillsets and Experience

• Broad hands-on experience and technical knowledgewith AWS and/or Azure, including cloud compute, database, storage, networking, identity, security, and related platform services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and automation using technologies such as Terraform and Ansible, with source code and configuration managed through Git-based development practices and platforms such as GitHub.
• Experience leading a team that develops standardized, reusable cloud services, patterns, and automation that enables consistent and efficient delivery while accommodating unique customer requirements whenappropriate.
• Experience modernizinga team’stechnology services and delivery practices to improve efficiency, accelerate delivery, enhance customer experience, and reduce manual effort through standardization, automation, and emerging technologies such as AI.
• Experience applying Agile and project management practices to manage priorities and backlogs,facilitateScrum or similar delivery processes, and drive technical initiatives through completion.
• Working knowledge of ITIL principles and practices, including incident, problem, service request, change, and service level management.
• Ability to analyze complexcloud architecture and engineering challenges,providetechnical guidance,and leadengineers and customersthroughsolution design andproblem resolution.
• Strong customer and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability tocommunicate cloud strategies, architectures, technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations toboth technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• RelevantAWS, Microsoft Azure,Terraform,Agile, or project managementcertifications.
• Experience supportingcloudservices within a federal government, healthcare, or similarly regulated environment.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

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• Rewards: Full benefits, wellness programs, 401K matching, competitive salary, and paid time off.
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

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The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $189,750. 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.

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

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