IT Infrastructure Lead

Centurion Consulting Group; Sully Square (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting group is seeking an IT Infrastructure Management Technical Lead in Virginia. The successful candidate will have a Master's degree or equivalent experience, 13+ years in IT infrastructure, and an active Top Secret clearance. Responsibilities include management of enterprise IT systems, overseeing technical strategies, and ensuring compliance and security standards. This pivotal role requires deep technical expertise and strong leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, deployment, and maintenance of IT infrastructure.
• Manage daily operations of servers, storage, networking, and cloud environments.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and lead incident management.

Skills

Virtualization

Windows Server Administration

Linux Administration

Networking Fundamentals

Cloud Platforms

Monitoring Tools

Infrastructure Scripting/Automation

DevSecOps

ITIL Practices

Disaster Recovery Planning

Education

Master’s degree in relevant field

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

IT Infrastructure Management Technical Lead

Years of Experience: 13+ years of relevant technical experience.
Education Requirements: Master’s degree in relevant field or 13+ years of experience in Information Systems Technology. Advanced degree may substitute for years of experience.
Clearance Requirement: Active Top Secret with eligibility to Special Compartmented Information (SCI)

Program Description: The Program manages a collaborative multi-enclave (Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret) portfolio of networks to provide a safe, secure, and collaborative environment in which to store, process, enrich, and analyze data. The program streamlines the examination process by offering a “one-stop shop” approach for examiners to leverage a myriad of tools and applications needed to help illustrate the totality of the criminal activity and actor(s) in question.

Position Description: IT Infrastructure Management Technical Lead - We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced IT Infrastructure Management Technical Lead to oversee the planning, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise IT infrastructure. This individual will provide both hands-on technical leadership and strategic guidance to ensure our systems are robust, secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with a deep understanding of network, server, storage, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities:
• Support a hybrid environment of commercial, open source, and custom built software and wide range of standard and specialized hardware components.
• Perform systems, network, and software engineering services. Support includes administering, monitoring, and maintaining the health of the systems, compliance management (including accreditation support) harnessing historical and real-time data to provide insights for planning and design, administering stand-alone systems and networks, and managing incident response deployment hardware kits.
• Support the team that may be required to work flexible scheduling and extended hours. Team members may be required to work non-standard hours, weekends, or holidays to respond and resolve critical incidents.
• Lead IT Infrastructure Operations:
Manage and oversee day-to-day infrastructure operations including servers, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud environments.
• Technical Leadership & Strategy:
Serve as the senior technical authority for infrastructure decisions, providing guidance to engineers and collaborating with IT leadership on long-term strategy.
• System Design & Implementation:
Design and implement scalable and secure infrastructure solutions in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Monitoring & Incident Management:
Ensure 24/7 infrastructure monitoring, performance optimization, and timely resolution of incidents or outages.
• Security & Compliance:
Implement and enforce infrastructure security standards, working closely with cybersecurity teams to maintain compliance (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA).
• Disaster Recovery & High Availability:
Develop, test, and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans for critical systems.
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management:
Manage relationships with technology vendors, service providers, and internal stakeholders to deliver reliable and cost-effective solutions.
• Team Mentorship:
Mentor junior engineers, provide code and architecture reviews, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
• Documentation & Reporting:
Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation and provide regular reporting on system health, capacity, and availability metrics.

Required Skills:
• Active top-secret clearance.
• Experience with unclassified, secret, top secret/sensitive compartmented information networks.
• Technical Expertise:
• Strong knowledge of virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V).
• Deep experience with Windows Server and/or Linux administration.
• Proficient in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPN).
• Experience managing storage systems (SAN, NAS, cloud storage).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Zabbix, Datadog, SolarWinds).
• Infrastructure scripting/automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible).
• Process & Operations:
• Experience with ITIL practices and service management.
• Strong understanding of backup strategies and disaster recovery planning.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with DevSecOps culture and Agile development processes.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead by example and inspire team growth.
• Some domestic or internal travel may be required.

Preferred Skills
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, Google Cloud Associate).
• Networking certifications (e.g., CCNA, CompTIA Network+).
• Security certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM, SSO, MFA solutions).
• Exposure to DevOps tools and practices (CI/CD, Jenkins, GitOps).