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Senior Operations Team Lead

CGI
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 6/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/4/2026
Position Description

The Senior Operations Team Lead is responsible for overseeing operational performance, service delivery quality, and cybersecurity readiness across a federal IT environment. This role requires a hands-on leader with deep experience managing system availability, operational metrics, and compliance activities while guiding technical teams in maintaining secure, resilient production systems.

Your future duties and responsibilities

  • Lead day‑to‑day IT operations and service delivery activities, ensuring stable, secure, and high‑performing production environments.
  • Manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs), system availability metrics, and operational reporting to ensure adherence to performance targets and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Oversee operations support related to cybersecurity compliance, including FISMA requirements, NIST SP 800‑53 and NIST 800‑37 frameworks, and POA&M lifecycle management.
  • Coordinate audit readiness activities and documentation for internal and external audits, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and issue resolution.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity, engineering, and application teams to maintain operational continuity and ensure alignment with organizational standards.
  • Monitor system performance trends, troubleshoot operational issues, and drive root‑cause analysis and long‑term corrective actions.
  • Support incident management and escalation processes to restore services quickly and prevent recurrence.
  • Prepare recurring operational dashboards, reports, and briefings for leadership and stakeholder review.
  • Mentor junior staff, promote operational best practices, and contribute to continuous improvement across the environment.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

  • Minimum of 6 years of experience in IT service delivery, cybersecurity operations, or operational support for federal IT systems.
  • Demonstrated experience managing SLAs, system availability metrics, and operational performance reporting.
  • Hands‑on experience supporting FISMA compliance, NIST SP 800‑53, NIST 800‑37, and POA&M management activities.
  • Experience supporting audit readiness efforts for federal oversight bodies.
  • Strong understanding of operational processes, incident management, and service delivery best practices.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to coordinate across technical and non‑technical teams.

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.

CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.

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All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.

CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.

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