Collaboration Principal (Microsoft and Google Workspace)

SAIC is currently seeking a Collaboration Principal (Microsoft and Google Workspace). This positon will provide technical, managerial, and administrative direction for planning and completing operational tasks, as well as tasks aligned to strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

Shift: Hybrid - Onsite 2 days a week; could possibly be 5 days onsite a week going forward

Overview of Responsibilities:

• Lead 2 teams in the strategy, design, implementation, and maintenance of DOT’s Google Workspace and Microsoft infrastructure.

• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define the scope of projects.

• Develop and implement solutions that meet the needs of the DOT mission.

• Stay up-to-date on the latest computing technologies and trends.

• Mentor and develop engineers to ensure the team is well-equipped to meet DOT’s needs.

• Communicating status with agency senior leadership.

• Collaborate with other infrastructure teams to realize operational efficiencies within the agency cloud offering. This includes working with vendors to identify potential approaches and rationalizing solutions that are best fit for agency environment.

Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

• 15+ years of experience within information technology architecting and implementing solutions (solutions cover initiatives such as deployment of business applications, deployment of enterprise tools, etc.)

• 10+ years of related experience managing cloud environments, possessing extensive skills and knowledge in Microsoft Exchange, Google Workspace (GWS), cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

• Must possess a bachelor’s degree. Degree may be substituted with 6 additional years of related experience.

• Demonstrated understanding of principles supporting compute, network, storage, and their application within the cloud (AWS, GWS and/or Azure).

• Demonstrated understanding of application architectures (web tier, application tier, database tier) and their implementation in the cloud.

• Deep understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices for sustaining an enterprise cloud environment.

• Demonstrated understanding of security best practices and their application as they relate to cloud-based environments and workloads (access management, monitoring, configuration management, etc.).

• Understanding of DevSecOps pipelines and toolsets and how they can work to create an enterprise shared service.

• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles and practices with the ability to identify, rationalize, and solution opportunities for improvement.

• Ability to prioritize, balance, and direct team member activities between ad-hoc tasking and planned initiatives.

• Experience in developing, planning, and implementing strategic initiatives within a roadmap.

Desired skills:

• ITIL v3/v4 certification

• Demonstrated experience leading a team

• Familiarity with agile planning methodologies

Note: Candidate must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder who has resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years and the ability to obtain a public trust.