Centurion Consulting Group, LLC
IT Infrastructure Lead
Centurion Consulting Group, LLC, Chantilly, Virginia, United States, 22021
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).
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).