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Unified Communications Manager

GDIT
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Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA
Sep 29, 2026

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

ITIL Processes, IT Service Management (ITSM), Monitoring Tools

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Advance how our customer operates while you advance your career. As the Unified Communications (UC) Manager, you will provide onsite leadership in Arlington, VA for 24x7 UC operations, directing engineering and support teams that manage telephony, video, conferencing, and collaboration platforms. You will ensure secure, continuous, high‑quality UC services across on‑premises and cloud environments, drive operational excellence, and guide contractor personnel to meet service levels.


MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As the UC Team Lead, you will oversee UC engineering and operations supporting the customer’s voice, video, collaboration, and conferencing platforms. You will manage staffing and onsite coverage; ensure operational stability; lead incident response for P1/P2 events; and provide technical direction to engineers and technicians. You will continuously improve monitoring, CMDB accuracy, and ServiceNow ITSM/ITOM integrations to support rapid detection, restoration, and service quality.


RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

  • Lead UC operations staffing, shift rotations, on‑call schedules, and onsite coverage.

  • Oversee configuration, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for UC platforms.

  • Direct UCMT monitoring, SNMP/trap handling, and ServiceNow CMDB/ITOM integrations.

  • Ensure CMDB accuracy for UC CIs to support correlation, enrichment, and impact analysis.

  • Manage P1/P2 incident response, troubleshooting, and root‑cause remediation.

  • Oversee provisioning, lifecycle management, and MACDs following Change Management.

  • Coordinate vendor/OEM escalations, warranty, and maintenance activities.

  • Maintain SOPs, runbooks, diagrams, and audit‑ready documentation.

  • Lead UC performance tuning, QoS configuration, capacity planning, and reporting.

  • Mentor UC engineers and ensure certification/training compliance.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Required Experience

  • 10+ years managing server and support services, including at least 3 years in an IT outsourcing environment overseeing contractor personnel and 24x7 delivery.

  • Demonstrated leadership of UC engineering teams supporting telephony, video conferencing, and collaboration platforms.

• ITIL 4 or ITIL 5 Foundation certification is required by the government customer to be considered.

Must work onsite 100% in Arlington, VA.


Required Technical Skills

  • Deep understanding of UC architectures: SIP, VoIP, QoS, dial plans, call routing, gateways, media traversal.

  • Experience with telephony and video platforms (Poly, Crestron, Cisco Webex, Avaya, Zoom, Logitech).

  • Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (Teams, Exchange Online, Entra ID) and UC integrations.

  • Experience integrating UC monitoring with ServiceNow CMDB and ITOM/ITSM workflows.

  • Ability to direct UCMT operations, including discovery, polling, SNMP/MIB management, trap handling, and topology mapping.

  • Knowledge of provisioning, MACDs, account lifecycle, and UC access controls.

  • Strong vendor/OEM coordination experience.

Tools Leadership

Experience leading teams using UC management tools: OpsWare/Operations Orchestration, SCOM, Site24x7, SolarWinds Observability Self‑Hosted, ServiceNow ITOM. Hands‑on expertise in every tool not required.


Required Skills and Abilities

  • Proven leadership in high‑pressure 24x7 environments.

  • Excellent communication skills; experienced leading incident bridges and outage updates.

  • Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

  • Deep knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Event, Capacity) and enforcing SLAs.

  • Ability to develop/validate SOPs, runbooks, KB articles, and support audits.

  • Preferred: UC security controls, PKI/encryption, compliance, hybrid/cloud UC, automation/scripting.

U.S. Citizenship and a background investigation are required; you must have a current clean financial background. The role requires flexibility to support issues or planned activities after hours, weekends and holidays as needed. Successful candidate must possess and be able to demonstrate technical skills and engineering attitude for success, dedication and commitment.


GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:


  • 401K with company match

  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages

  • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

  • Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

  • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. 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:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Arlington

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.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

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Job ID

RQ229456

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