From General Dynamics Information Technology's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Enterprise Operations, Information Technology (IT) Services, Information Technology Operations Certifications:
None Experience:
8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Own the Operation. Drive the Response. Keep the Enterprise Running.
When critical technology services are responsible for keeping an enterprise operating, someone needs to own the bigger picture.
We are looking for an Operations Manager to lead the operational execution across a portfolio supported by 28 Digital Services Engineering teams . This position is responsible for ensuring enterprise systems and services remain available, reliable, secure, and operational while providing the leadership and coordination necessary to respond rapidly when priorities change or critical incidents occur.
This is a high-visibility leadership position that operates across the entire engineering organization. You will ensure teams remain focused on their operational commitments, have the resources and support they need, maintain security and audit readiness, and respond quickly when an unexpected Priority One initiative, outage, operational requirement, or mission-critical effort emerges.
The Operations Manager is ultimately focused on one question:
Are our services operating, and if they are not, what are we doing to restore them?
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
What You'll Do
● Own operational performance across the Digital Services portfolio , maintaining visibility into the health, availability, reliability, and performance of enterprise systems and services supported by the 28 engineering teams.
● Drive rapid service restoration during outages and significant operational events by coordinating the appropriate engineering teams, removing obstacles, escalating when necessary, and ensuring issues are driven through resolution.
● Coordinate emerging priorities and critical initiatives , including Priority One incidents, urgent customer requirements, unexpected operational demands, and high-priority efforts that arise outside the normal planning cycle.
● Keep engineering teams focused on operational delivery by establishing priorities, identifying competing demands, resolving organizational obstacles, and ensuring teams have the information, resources, access, and support required to perform.
● Maintain operational and security readiness by ensuring compliance activities, audit requirements, documentation, evidence, remediation actions, and operational commitments remain current and ready when required.
● Serve as a senior escalation point for engineering teams, providing leadership and coordination when technical or operational situations require additional support, cross-team engagement, or executive visibility.
● Establish and maintain operational awareness through service health, performance, availability, incident, risk, and readiness reporting that gives engineering leadership a clear understanding of the environment.
● Drive continuous operational improvement by identifying recurring problems, service weaknesses, process gaps, and opportunities to improve reliability, response times, automation, and overall service performance.
What You'll Bring
Required
● Experience leading or managing operations within a large-scale enterprise IT environment.
● Demonstrated experience overseeing the availability, performance, and operational delivery of multiple technology services or platforms.
● Experience coordinating multiple technical teams during incidents, outages, major changes, or high-priority initiatives.
● Strong understanding of enterprise IT operations, infrastructure, applications, cloud, networking, cybersecurity, end-user computing, or related technology disciplines.
● Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing operational demands and rapidly respond when critical requirements emerge.
● Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, and escalation management skills.
● Ability to work effectively with engineers, technical leads, managers, senior leadership, customers, and other stakeholders.
What makes this job so unique
Our programs brings together 28 different IT engineering disciplines supporting a complex enterprise technology portfolio.
The Operations Manager provides the leadership layer that connects those disciplines into a functioning operational organization.
Each engineering team has its own technical responsibilities, priorities, and expertise. Your responsibility is to ensure that those teams operate as one organization when the enterprise needs them to.
That means understanding what is happening across the environment, knowing which services are most critical, recognizing when priorities need to change, and bringing the right teams together quickly when something goes wrong.
You will work across infrastructure, cloud, applications, networking, cybersecurity, end-user computing, unified communications, monitoring, service management, and other engineering disciplines.
You don't need to be the deepest technical expert in every discipline.
You need to understand how the pieces fit together and how to lead the organization when they don't.
The Operations Manager as the Escalation Point
When an engineering team encounters an issue that requires additional leadership, coordination, resources, or organizational support, the Operations Manager becomes a key escalation point.
You will help answer:
Who needs to be involved?
What is preventing the team from resolving this?
What needs to happen right now?
What resources or leadership support are required?
What is the operational impact?
Who needs to know?
How do we get the service restored?
The expectation is not simply to escalate problems upward.
The expectation is to help drive them to completion.
You will remove organizational obstacles, coordinate across teams, engage leadership when necessary, and maintain pressure on critical activities until the operational outcome is achieved.
Operational Readiness
Operational excellence requires preparation before something goes wrong.
The Operations Manager will ensure engineering teams maintain the documentation, evidence, processes, controls, and operational readiness necessary to support security requirements, audits, assessments, service reviews, and other enterprise obligations.
You will help ensure that the organization is not scrambling to demonstrate compliance after a request arrives.
The organization should already be ready.
When the Unexpected Happens
Enterprise operations rarely follow a perfect schedule.
A critical vulnerability emerges.
A major service fails.
A customer requirement changes.
A Priority One initiative appears in the middle of the week.
A major deployment needs immediate coordination.
A system that worked yesterday suddenly doesn't work today.
The Operations Manager provides the organizational leadership necessary to shift gears without losing control of the larger portfolio .
You will rapidly assess the situation, establish priorities, identify the teams required, coordinate the response, maintain leadership visibility, and drive the organization toward resolution.
What Success Looks Like
Success means the enterprise knows its services are operating—and when they aren't, the organization responds quickly and effectively.
It means:
Critical services remain available and reliable.
Operational issues are identified and addressed before they become larger problems.
Priority One incidents receive immediate leadership and coordination.
Engineering teams remain focused on their operational commitments.
Security and audit requirements are continuously maintained and ready.
Teams have the resources, access, information, and organizational support they need.
Cross-team dependencies and operational risks are visible.
Leadership has an accurate picture of service health and operational performance.
Problems are driven to resolution rather than simply escalated.
The organization continually becomes more predictable, resilient, and effective.
Most importantly, you take ownership of the operational outcome.
You don't simply ask whether someone is working the problem.
You ask:
What is the problem?
Who owns it?
What is preventing resolution?
What do they need?
What is the operational impact?
What is our next move?
And when will the service be back?
If you are an experienced technology operations leader who thrives in complex environments, enjoys bringing technical teams together, and takes pride in keeping critical enterprise services operating, this is an opportunity to lead at significant scale.
Know the environment. Lead the response. Restore the service. Keep the enterprise running.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Enterprise Operations Manager must have:
● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or Equivalent experience
● Experience: 8+ years of related experience
● Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly
● US citizenship required
● Role requirements:
Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment and make sound decisions with incomplete or rapidly changing information.
Strong understanding of operational risk, security compliance, audit readiness, and service management principles
● Certification: Must be 8520 compliant with a Security + Certification
● Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
● Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
#GlobalServices
The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. 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%
T elecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA MD Annapolis Junction
Additional Work Locations:
Compensation
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.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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