Secure Communications Lead

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

IT Policies, Network Configurations, Networking Hardware

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as Secure Communications Lead and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Secure Communications Lead the work you’ll provide the full range of Customer Support and Engineering Services to meet the mission needs of the Department. This includes enhanced service delivery and response times to support all DT customers across all devices and services, utilizing a comprehensive and efficient approach to enable the Department’s global footprint, which encompasses approximately 175,000 desktops and laptops, and over 65,000 mobile phones and tablets.

The Contractor shall provide design, engineering, configuration, sustainment, and technical support for the Department’s secure voice and video communications systems. The infrastructure for these systems shall enable secure (Secret and TS/SCI) voice and video-based conference calls, ensuring timely, reliable, and interoperable communications among senior U.S. Government leadership. The Contractor shall deliver a modern, high-quality, worldwide secure voice communications solution, enabling the Secretary of State, Ambassadors, Diplomats, Principals, and Posts, as well as the President, White House, Cabinet-level officials, and other senior U.S. Government entities, to communicate securely 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You will provide design, engineering, and support secure voice and video communications systems. Ensures interoperability, compliance, and 24/7 availability for senior leadership and interagency partners
 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Secure Communications Lead must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in information security, telecommunications, or related field

• 7+ years of secure voice/video systems experience (including classified environments)

• Experience with interagency secure communications and compliance (CNSS, NIST)

• Experience supporting Red Switch or similar secure telephony systems

• Active Secret security clearance. The ability to obtain a Top Secret / SCI security clearance by the time of award as required by the contract

• Work Experience: Design, engineer, configure, and optimize secure voice and video communication solutions and systems to maintain interoperability across U.S. Government agencies and departments, supporting both domestic and overseas locations

• Work Experience: Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues affecting secure voice and video services, ensuring minimal disruption to mission-essential communications.

• Work Experience: Work closely with interagency partners to ensure end-to-end secure voice and video service interoperability and continuity during national crises, diplomatic operations, humanitarian efforts, and routine Government business.

• Work Experience: Develop, maintain, and update system documentation, engineering baselines, and configuration control records to support modernization and long-term sustainment of secure voice and video platforms.

• Work Experience: Conduct regular testing, validation, and monitoring of secure voice and video infrastructure to ensure performance and compliance with federal and national security systems standards.

• Work Experience: Perform system maintenance and upgrades, producing and maintaining security documentation necessary to support Authority to Operate (ATO) compliance requirements.

• Work Experience: Provide technical support and training to Red Switch operators.

• Work Experience: Produce and maintain current and future technical manuals, system diagrams, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and engineering documentation to ensure continuous operations and effective support.

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, competitive pay and paid time off

Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

The likely salary range for this position is $124,093 - $155,250. 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:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA DC Washington

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.

 

 

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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