Cyber Infrastructure Specialist SME

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ214550

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cybersecurity, Virtualization, VMware Technologies
Certifications:
None
Experience:
10 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

As a GDIT Cyber Infrastructure Specialist, the work you'll do will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will bring deep expertise in building, deploying, configuring, and hardening enterprise-grade servers and virtualization platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with VMware technologies (vSphere, vSAN, NSX) and a strong background in systems security, automation/scripting, and lifecycle management. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to collaborate across IT, cybersecurity, and operations teams to ensure resilient and secure infrastructure delivery.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cyber Infrastructure Specialist, you will support the business strategy that helps ensure that today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on and joining our team to implement broad impact infrastructure solutions that enable the business to thrive and our customers to realize the benefits of key ZT modernization efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise server and virtualization environments, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.
• Build and configure virtual machines, clusters, storage, and networking for high availability and scalability.
• Integrate compute, storage, and networking resources to deliver optimized virtualized infrastructure solutions.
• Apply DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and other security baselines to harden servers and virtualization platforms.
• Ensure compliance with NIST 800-53, RMF, FISMA, or other federal cybersecurity requirements as applicable.
• Perform patching, updates, and vulnerability remediation on hypervisors, guest operating systems, and management tools.
• Leverage scripting and/or automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or similar) to streamline deployment and configuration tasks.
• Develop scripts and workflows for configuring, hardening, routine operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Optimize infrastructure performance and capacity through proactive monitoring and tuning.
• Provide engineering support for issues involving VMware and server platforms.
• Document architecture, build procedures, and configuration baselines for knowledge sharing and audits.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• 10+ years of related experience.
• 15+ years preferred.
• Secret clearance.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX in enterprise or federal environments.
• Strong expertise in server build, configuration, and hardening (Windows and/or Linux).
• Demonstrated experience applying security baselines and compliance frameworks (e.g., DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks).
• Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, PowerCLI, Terraform, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (VLANs, routing, firewalls, micro-segmentation).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with ability to work independently or in a team.
• Strong problems solving skills.
• Excellent communications and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with Federal and Department of War customers

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
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 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.

#cyberGDIT

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $172,500. 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:
10-25%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 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 capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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As a GDIT Cyber Infrastructure Specialist, the work you'll do will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will bring deep expertise in building, deploying, configuring, and hardening enterprise-grade servers and virtualization platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with VMware technologies (vSphere, vSAN, NSX) and a strong background in systems security, automation/scripting, and lifecycle management. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to collaborate across IT, cybersecurity, and operations teams to ensure resilient and secure infrastructure delivery.


MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cyber Infrastructure Specialist, you will support the business strategy that helps ensure that today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on and joining our team to implement broad impact infrastructure solutions that enable the business to thrive and our customers to realize the benefits of key ZT modernization efforts.



Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise server and virtualization environments, including VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.
• Build and configure virtual machines, clusters, storage, and networking for high availability and scalability.
• Integrate compute, storage, and networking resources to deliver optimized virtualized infrastructure solutions.
• Apply DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and other security baselines to harden servers and virtualization platforms.
• Ensure compliance with NIST 800-53, RMF, FISMA, or other federal cybersecurity requirements as applicable.
• Perform patching, updates, and vulnerability remediation on hypervisors, guest operating systems, and management tools.
• Leverage scripting and/or automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or similar) to streamline deployment and configuration tasks.
• Develop scripts and workflows for configuring, hardening, routine operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Optimize infrastructure performance and capacity through proactive monitoring and tuning.
• Provide engineering support for issues involving VMware and server platforms.
• Document architecture, build procedures, and configuration baselines for knowledge sharing and audits.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• 10+ years of related experience.
• 15+ years preferred.
• Secret clearance.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX in enterprise or federal environments.
• Strong expertise in server build, configuration, and hardening (Windows and/or Linux).
• Demonstrated experience applying security baselines and compliance frameworks (e.g., DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks).
• Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, PowerCLI, Terraform, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals (VLANs, routing, firewalls, micro-segmentation).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with ability to work independently or in a team.
• Strong problems solving skills.
• Excellent communications and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with Federal and Department of War customers



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
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 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.