Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure Operations Lead

Koniag Services, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

3 weeks paid time off

Job summary

Koniag IT Systems, LLC (KITS) seeks an Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead to oversee a hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud environment for a large federal civilian agency in Washington, DC. The role requires a strong background in enterprise IT infrastructure, security compliance, and cross-functional leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive platform reliability, change management, and modernization initiatives, with emphasis on data center consolidation, cloud migration, and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years enterprise IT infrastructure experience, including 3+ years leading technical teams.
• Experience with hybrid on-premises/cloud environments, including AWS GovCloud and VMware.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary infrastructure team spanning server/cloud engineering, storage/backup, database administration, and monitoring/SRE functions.
• Own the technical roadmap for hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud infrastructure, including ongoing data center exit and workload migration efforts.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for Severity 1/2 incidents, driving root cause analysis and coordinating cross-team remediation.
• Partner with the customer's CIO office and program management to plan capacity, budget, and lifecycle refresh for compute, storage, and network assets.
• Establish and enforce operational standards, runbooks, and change management processes aligned to ITIL practices and CAB.
• Oversee BDCR program, including DR testing, failover exercises, and RTO/RPO validation for mission-critical systems.
• Ensure infra and platform operations comply with FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, and FedRAMP; support ATO/ConMon.
• Manage vendor and OEM relationships and track SLA/OLA performance.
• Report program-level infrastructure health, risk, and modernization progress to leadership.
• Support proposal development, staffing plans, and onboarding for infrastructure operations personnel.

Skills

Windows Server

Linux server

Enterprise storage/backup

SQL Server/Oracle

FISMA/NIST/FedRAMP

ITIL/ITSM/ServiceNow

Cloud – AWS GovCloud

VMware virtualization

Incident & change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

VMware

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Koniag IT Systems, LLC (KITS) seeks an Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead to oversee a hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud environment for a large federal civilian agency in Washington, DC. The role requires a strong background in enterprise IT infrastructure, security compliance, and cross-functional leadership.

The ideal candidate will drive platform reliability, change management, and modernization initiatives, with emphasis on data center consolidation, cloud migration, and incident