Operations and Maintenance Lead

General Dynamics

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$119,000–$161,000 / yr
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $172k
This role $140k
$107k most similar roles pay here $229k

This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $140,000–$203,925 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About General Dynamics

General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation, ship construction, land combat vehicles, and information technology. It serves customers in the U.S. government, allied governments, and a diverse array of commercial markets.

General Dynamics currently has 1123 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $124,093–$150,385 across 984 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at General Dynamics

At a glance

TL;DR · Operations and Maintenance Lead

Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Lead oversees enterprise-wide IT operations, including network engineering, database administration, and systems engineering. This role is responsible for ensuring the stable, secure, and efficient performance of mission-critical infrastructure while driving modernization, automation, and reliability enhancements across all functions. The lead manages distributed teams across multiple U.S. sites and serves as a primary onsite leader in Washington, DC. Daily responsibilities include managing incident response, change management, patching, backups, and preventative maintenance, alongside overseeing lifecycle management and configuration changes for production environments. Key competencies required include technical leadership, customer engagement, and the ability to manage enterprise SLAs and performance metrics. The role focuses on maintaining high-availability environments by ensuring compliance with security requirements and accreditation standards while providing senior-level guidance to resolve complex issues across various O&M disciplines.

What you'll do

  • Lead distributed teams across network engineering, systems engineering, and database administration.
  • Drive operational excellence through modernization, automation, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
  • Manage enterprise SLAs, performance metrics, and overall service delivery expectations.
  • Oversee daily operations including monitoring, incident response, change management, patching, and backups.
  • Coordinate infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle management, and configuration changes for production environments.
  • Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and compliance records.
  • Provide senior-level technical leadership to resolve complex issues across all O&M disciplines.
  • Ensure compliance with security requirements, accreditation standards, and enterprise governance processes.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • Must possess an active Q or TS clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, or a related field.
  • 9+ years of related experience in information technology operations.
  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT operations or O&M team leadership.
  • Experience supervising distributed technical teams across multiple geographic locations.
  • Strong background in network operations, systems administration, or database engineering.
  • Proven ability to manage SLAs and lead continual service improvement programs.

More like this

Similar roles

Data Operations Support Lead

General Dynamics

Remote 7 days ago $169,604$229,464
AWS Data Governance ETL ELT Python PowerShell CI/CD SRE Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Lake ITIL Business Intelligence Change Management Incident Management
10+ yrs exp Remote

CYOC Administrator

General Dynamics

Offutt AFB, NE 9 days ago $85,093$104,650
Network Administration NetOps TCP/IP DNS DHCP Routing Switching WAN LAN ITIL Data Analysis Patch Management Incident Management NIPRNet SIPRNet JWICS SAP/SAR
3+ yrs exp

Division Operations Lead

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA 46 days ago $166,000$220,000
Artificial Intelligence Sensor Fusion Robotics Data Analysis Aerospace Manufacturing SOPs Operational Accounting Export Compliance
7+ yrs exp

IAM Operations Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton

Reston, VA +2 34 days ago $99,000$225,000
PKI Certificate Lifecycle Management Linux Asymmetric Cryptography Keyfactor Venafi ACME SCEP Scripting Automation

Operations Shift Lead

Leidos

Arlington, VA 10 days ago $73,450$132,775
Windows Server Linux ITIL Incident Management Change Management SolarWinds Splunk ServiceNow Jira DNS DHCP Routing Switching Cybersecurity Network Operations NOC SOC
4+ yrs exp

Business Operations Lead

Nissan

Franklin, TN 78 days ago
ITIL ITSM ServiceNow Ansible PagerDuty Power BI Cloud Architecture Incident Management Root Cause Analysis RCA Agile SAFe Change Management Vendor Management Sourcing Strategy RFP RFI Contract Negotiation Automation
5+ yrs exp Hybrid