Senior Hybrid Cloud & Platform Operations Lead

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks an Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead to support KITS and our government customer in Washington, DC. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

The role oversees hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud infrastructure, security compliance, change management, and operational standards across the program, with a focus on incident response, BDCR, and coordination with the Customer CIO Office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of 10 years of enterprise IT infrastructure experience, including 3+ years leading technical teams
• Demonstrated experience managing hybrid on‑premises/cloud environments, including AWS GovCloud and VMware virtualization

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 Office of the CIO 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 the customer's Change Advisory Board (CAB)
• Oversee the BDCR program, including DR testing, failover exercises, and RTO/RPO validation for mission‑critical systems
• Ensure infrastructure and platform operations comply with FISMA, NIST SP 800‑53, and FedRAMP; support ATO/ConMon activities
• Manage vendor and OEM relationships and track SLA/OLA performance against contract requirements
• Report program-level infrastructure health, risk, and modernization progress to leadership and government stakeholders
• Support proposal development, staffing plans, and onboarding for infrastructure operations personnel

Skills

Team leadership

Hybrid on-prem & cloud

ITIL / ServiceNow

FISMA/NIST/FedRAMP

Security & compliance

Communication

AWS GovCloud

VMware

Windows Server

Linux

SQL Server / Oracle

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

VMware

AWS GovCloud

ServiceNow

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks an Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead to support KITS and our government customer in Washington, DC. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

The role oversees hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud infrastructure, security compliance, change management, and operational standards across the program, with a focus on incident response, BDCR, and coordination with the Customer CIO Office.