Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead

Koniag IT Systems LLC a Koniag Government Services company is seeking 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 offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K with company matching flexible spending accounts paid holidays three weeks paid time off and IT Solutions (KITS) is seeking an Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead with a minimum of 10 years of progressive IT infrastructure experience including at least 3 years in a lead or supervisory capacity to oversee day-to-day operations of a hybrid multi-cloud enterprise environment supporting a large federal civilian agency. The ideal candidate serves as the primary technical point of contact for infrastructure operations coordinating platform reliability security compliance and change management across the Infrastructure & Platform Operations Lead will be responsible for leading enterprise data center consolidation and cloud migration efforts managing cross-functional infrastructure teams (server storage database and monitoring/SRE) and can translate agency modernization priorities into an executable operations roadmap. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary infrastructure team spanning server/cloud engineering storage/backup database administration and monitoring/SRE the technical roadmap for hybrid on-premises and AWS GovCloud infrastructure including ongoing data center exit and workload migration as the primary escalation point for Severity 1/2 incidents driving root cause analysis and coordinating cross-team with the customers Office of the CIO and program management to plan capacity budget and lifecycle refresh for compute storage and network and enforce operational standards runbooks and change management processes aligned to ITIL practices and the customers Change Advisory Board (CAB).Oversee the business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) program including DR testing failover exercises and recovery time/point objective (RTO/RPO) validation for mission-critical financial and case-management infrastructure and platform operations comply with FISMA NIST SP 800-53 and FedRAMP requirements; support Authority to Operate (ATO) packages and continuous monitoring (ConMon) vendor and OEM relationships (cloud hardware and software) and track SLA/OLA performance against contract program-level infrastructure health risk and modernization progress to KITS leadership and government proposal development staffing plans and onboarding for infrastructure operations and Experience:Required:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field from an accredited college or universityMinimum 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 preferred) and VMware virtualization Required Skills and Competencies:Strong working knowledge of Windows Server and Linux server administration enterprise storage/backup and relational database platforms (Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle).Experience with data center consolidation cloud migration or infrastructure modernization initiatives on a federal knowledge of federal IT security frameworks (FISMA NIST SP 800-53 FedRAMP) and ATO/ConMon with ITSM tools (e.g. ServiceNow) and ITIL-aligned incident problem and change written and verbal communication skills with experience briefing government program and technical Requirement:Ability to obtain Public TrustDesired Skills and Competencies:PMP ITIL Foundation or equivalent process/leadership Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) or equivalent cloud supporting a civilian financial regulatory or capital-access/loan-servicing IT with enterprise monitoring/observability platforms (Splunk SolarWinds Grafana or Datadog).Experience managing business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) programs for financial Equal Employment Opportunity PolicyThe company is an equal opportunity employer. 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