AWS Technical Lead-DC Metro area

AWS Technical Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) seeks an AWS Technical Lead to join our innovative cloud infrastructure team. In this role, you will collaborate directly with our federal client to modernize and expand their cloud capabilities, enabling their mission-critical operations through cutting-edge cloud solutions. We manage multi-cloud environments, and as a key technical leader, you will shape architectures, synthesize cross-agency requirements, and drive successful implementation.

• Operational Leadership:
  • Own the current state of AWS systems and work with the team to identify gaps and areas for improvements
  • In partnership with the operations lead, work to improve operational excellence across the USPTO AWS environment.
  • Participate as final escalation point with Program Manager to ensure that response SLA's are met
• Solution Development:
  • Collaborate with client stakeholders and customers to define technical requirements and objectives.
  • Bring USPTO systems to the next level, helping adopt AI practices, lead the design of system improvements and help oversee client deliverables.
• Team Enablement & Mentorship:
  • Lead a team of Dev Ops Engineers, ensuring innovative and secure cloud strategies.
  • Build a culture of continuous improvements, proactively identify areas of improvement from customer requests, and maintain and prioritize a backlog of improvements.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Partner with senior leadership, enterprise architecture teams, and agency personnel to build cloud adoption strategies.

Minimum Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen/Green Card Holder eligible for Public Trust clearance.
• 10+ years of IT/digital transformation experience.
• 5+ years of deep hands-on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP cloud architectures and implementations.
• Strong communication and collaboration ability

• Expertise leading multi-tenant cloud systems (e.g., landing zones, multi-account systems).
• Team management, leading and developing team members.
• Focus on proactively identifying and driving improvement in cloud infrastructure
• Experience developing and managing high-availability, secure, and automated solutions aligned with best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops  methodologies and tools (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, Git Lab).
• Professional Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven experience bridging on-premise systems with cloud environments.

The likely salary range for this position is $199,750 - $270,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:

USA CT Home Office (CTHOME)

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans