Site Lead (GISA CONUS)

Description

Job Description:

Leidos is Making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. The Defense Group of Leidos has an opening for a Site Lead to work on customer site at Ft Bragg, NC.

JOB SUMMARY:

The ideal candidate will lead a large team of experienced professionals that is responsible for IT repair, maintenance, operations, and engineering services to ensure that the organization's information technology infrastructure is operating securely, reliably and efficiently. This individual also acts as the Site Lead addressing local staffing and reporting requirements, interfacing across multiple teams, with the local Government Customer leadership and reporting up the Leidos Program Manager. This is a large central site, with many geographically spread-out locations.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead and manage technical staff while communicating across teams and with customers and Leidos program managers. Responsible for personnel and project management at the Site such as assigns personnel to various projects, directs their activities, and evaluates their work. Manage entire projects spanning multiple technical areas, working to achieve key project/program objectives and deliverables. Influences development of solutions that impact strategic customer goals.

As Systems Administrator, ensures long-term requirements of systems operations and administration are included in the overall information systems planning of the organization. Responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration, and integrity of computer and server software. Implements enhancements and innovations that will improve the reliability and performance of the systems. Responsible for the support of the customer’s local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN), Intranet and Internet, and other data communications systems

Primary Responsibilities of the combined Site Lead will include:

• Responsible for the day‐to‐day IT operations, including service desk, desktop, server, storage, and network administration, VTC scheduling and operations support, and hardware support

• Acts as first-level supervisor for central site and remote site employees. Manage personnel and their operational and project-related workloads. Provide guidance and direction as needed

• Perform systems administration of desktop and server systems.

  • System management responsibilities involving account monitoring, IT security, operating system (OS) installation, and other local area system administration related functions

  • Install, administer, and maintain Windows servers, workstations, laptops, and basic cabling as part of the overall systems architecture across multiple networks and locations

  • Install, administer and maintain virtual environments and physical hosts and storage devices

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must currently possess an active TS/SCI

• Broad management and leadership knowledge and 4+ years of experience managing large teams of at least 50 IT professionals that may be diverse geographically or technically

• Minimum Education / Experience Level: MA/MS degree in technology related field and 10+ years of in-depth experience in design, configuration, operations, and troubleshooting of IT systems

  • With a BA/BS degree in technology related field and 12 years of experience may serve in lieu of a MA/MS degree

• Current cyber workforce certification at IAT Level II, such as CompTIA Security+ CE

  • Or other equivalent certification defined in DoDD 8140.01 (Formerly DoDD 8570.01M)

• Currently possess at least one (1) Computing Environment certification such as:

  • Intermediate-level Microsoft certification such as MCSA: Windows Server 2016/2019 or newer or other Role-based Microsoft Certified Associate in relevant area such as:

    • Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate, or

    • Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

  • VMware Certified Technical Associate 2022 or other equivalent, recent associate-level virtualization certificate

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively interface with military officials, managers, and technical teammates across multiple areas

• Enterprise-level IT experience with maintenance of servers, storage devices and applications

• Experience managing virtualization solutions such as VMware & Microsoft Hyper-V

• Knowledge of IT service desk requirements and management software

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Project management certification, such as PMI Project Management Professional

• IT services management certification, such as ITIL Foundation

• Additional Computing Environment certifications in storage, networking, systems administration, and cloud such as:

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or other equivalent associate-level networking certification

  • NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), ONTAP or other professional-level storage certification

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.