Service Delivery Manager

General Dynamics IT; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT seeks a Service Delivery Manager for a federal client within an Infrastructure Services Contract. You will oversee a large, distributed technical team and ensure delivery across multiple data center stacks, aligning with customer priorities and contract terms.

The role requires deep enterprise IT experience, strong leadership, and a track record of driving performance. Hybrid work with periodic on-site engagements is expected, supporting national scale operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience; US citizenship required.
• Experience managing enterprise IT and data center operations.
• Strong planning and services management skills.
• Experience with ITIL and large-scale programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage a 140+ person technical team across two data center locations.
• Oversee cost, schedule, and technical performance of programs.
• Coordinate with customers and Product Owner on strategy and priorities.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding of new team members.
• Provide mentorship and career development to staff.
• Direct all phases of programs from inception to completion.

Skills

Enterprise IT

Planning

Services Management

Job description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family: Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Enterprise IT, Planning, Services Management Certifications:

None Experience:

10 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Service Delivery Manager for a federal client for an Infrastructure Services Contract.

Transform technology into opportunity as a Service Delivery Manager with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you'll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Service Delivery Manager, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Service Delivery Manager joining our Infrastructure Services Contract team to provide management and technical direction for 140+ technical resources supporting over 20 different data center technology stacks. This resource will be responsible for overseeing and managing all engineering resources and projects. This hybrid position offers a combination of remote work and periodic on-site support and customer meetings.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

Managing the relationship with key business customers, developing an understanding of their business needs and priorities, and delivering software solutions that meet those business needs.

Providing input to the Product Owner/Business Sponsor on the product strategy and vision, and giving feedback on the content and prioritization of the Product Backlog.

Being available to provide advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work

Identifying issues to teams that they might overlook, such as scalability, performance, or security.

Providing mentorship, career development advice, skills development and training, and overall guidance to team members and Supervisors.

Leading the recruitment and hiring of new team members, with the active involvement and input of existing team members;

Directs all phases of programs from inception through completion.

Responsible for the cost, schedule and technical performance of company programs or subsystems of major programs.

Participates in the negotiation of contract and contract changes.

Coordinates the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets and financial terms/conditions of contract.

Acts as primary customer contact for program activities, leading program review sessions with customer to discuss cost, schedule, and technical performance.

Establishes design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.

Develops new business or expands the product line with the customer. - Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules, identifies program problems and obtains solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications.

Directs the work of employees assigned to the program from technical and administrative areas.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Management over two complex data center locations that support all classes of servers, storage, databases, networking, applications, and security.

Demonstrated experience managing mainframe and physical and logical server security, disaster recovery failover, business continuity, and batch job scheduling in mainframe and distributed (i.e., Windows, VMware, UNIX) operating system environments.

Demonstrated experience managing large, complex server environments containing over 2000 servers, 5000+ network devices, 20+ petabytes, and 300 applications.

Demonstrated experience planning and executing server consolidation and virtualization efforts on Windows, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux in a production operational environment.

Demonstrated experience managing enterprise class storage across server technologies (e.g., Windows, Solaris, Red Hat, VMware) implementing operational best practices, provisioning standards, and storage migrations and optimizations.

Demonstrated experience with implementing ITIL standards and processes in a large, highly available, dynamic data center operation.

Demonstrated experience managing a 7x24 major incident management command center that monitors a national service and manages faults and failures proactively and reactively.

Demonstrated experience managing IBM mainframe with z/OS Operating System.

Demonstrated experience translating business requirements and technical implementation.

Demonstrated experience with systems engineering in the context of a large, complex infrastructure.

Experience installing, configuring, and migrating at least one of the core technology stacks (Storage, Compute, Network)

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