Engineering Manager (Active Top-Secret Clearance Required)

Great Hill Solutions, LLC is part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio of companies. SNG is Seneca Holdings' federal government contracting business that meets mission-critical needs of federal civilian, defense, and intelligence community customers. Our portfolio comprises multiple subsidiaries that participate in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. To learn more about SNG, visit the website and follow us on LinkedIn.

Our team of talented individuals is what makes us successful. To support our team, we provide a balanced mix of benefits and programs. Your total rewards package includes competitive pay, benefits, and perks, flexible work-life balance, professional development opportunities, and performance and recognition programs. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, voluntary benefit programs (critical illness, hospital, and accident), health savings and flexible spending accounts, and retirement 401K plan. One of our fundamental principles is to offer competitive health and welfare benefits to our team members, providing coverage and care for you and your family. Full-time employees working at least 30 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefits and paid leave programs. We pride ourselves on our collaborative work environment and culture, which embraces our mission of providing financial and non-financial benefits back to the members of the Seneca Nation.

Great Hill is seeking an Engineering Manager in Washington D.C. The Engineering Manager serves as the primary interface between contractor engineering teams and federal technical leads and organizational executives, ensuring operational excellence, modernization alignment, regulatory compliance, and mission-focused service delivery. As the senior operational and technical leader responsible for execution, the engineering manager guides integration, and performance oversight of hybrid cloud and enterprise hosting engineering teams supporting the Department of State’s Infrastructure Management (IM) mission. This role provides leadership across various engineering disciplines including Cloud, Data Protection, On-Premises (Converged & Hyperconverged) Data Center Infrastructure, Monitoring & Automation, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), and Security domains.

Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Program & Service Delivery Oversight

• Serve as primary engagement authority for federal technical leads across engineering teams and provide executive-level reporting to federal leadership

• Review and validate new project requests for scope, architectural alignment, resource allocation, and risk posture

• Oversee successful project lifecycle execution, including documentation, ATO considerations, and formal closeout approvals

• Ensure weekly and monthly performance reporting reflects accurate labor utilization, SLA adherence, and modernization progress

• Drive alignment with Functional Bureau Strategy (FBS), hybrid hosting roadmap, and Department modernization initiatives

• Lead enterprise transition toward hybrid cloud posture integrating on-premises and Azure cloud capabilities

• Oversee VMware modernization efforts, including transition to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and evaluation of hypervisor-neutral hardware platforms

• Promote infrastructure automation, self-healing orchestration, and policy-driven management across environments

• Ensure observability tools transition from passive monitoring to automated remediation capabilities

• Support integration of cloud-native storage, backup, and compliance capabilities aligned with federal retention requirements

Supervisory Responsibilities & Scope

Direct oversight of multidisciplinary engineering teams supporting:

• Microsoft Azure enterprise cloud services, hybrid integration, and Azure Arc-enabled orchestration

• Global enterprise backup, restore, disaster recovery, and Azure-based cold storage integration

• Enterprise on-premises hosting infrastructure across multiple data centers

• VMware modernization and transition to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

• Observability and automation platforms (Zabbix, Dynatrace, Aria / vROps, PowerShell, Ansible)

• Global Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (Omnissa Horizon)

• Executive oversight of ATO documentation and validation, systems control, and audit readiness, vulnerability analytics, and modernization initiatives

• Oversee vulnerability identification and remediation lifecycle management

• Evaluation and modernization of security operations and policy

• Security posture reporting and alignment with federal cybersecurity mandates and Department policy

Leadership & Personnel Management

• Provide direct supervision and performance management for engineering

• Mentor technical leads and architects across cloud, infrastructure, automation, and security disciplines

• Balance resource allocation across competing priorities while maintaining SLA

• Foster culture of accountability, innovation, and operational discipline

• Enable communication across engineering teams to ensure data driven decisions

Risk & Issue Management

• Resolve or escalate risks and issues raised by engineering team leads

• Serve as an escalation point for outages and after-hours incident response

• Analyze performance metrics with federal technical leads and engineering leads to identify trends and corrective actions

• Identify gaps in client needs and implement service improvements

Required Qualifications

• Active Top-Secret clearance required

• Minimum 7–10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or hybrid hosting environments

• Demonstrated leadership managing multidisciplinary engineering teams in federal environments

• Experience supporting Azure, VMware, and enterprise data center platforms

• Experience working within a federal contracting environment and engaging with leadership at various levels of technical responsibility

• Strong understanding of federal cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP)

Core Competencies

• Hybrid cloud strategy execution

• Enterprise infrastructure modernization

• Executive stakeholder engagement

• Risk and escalation management

• Operational performance optimization

• Cross-functional leadership and workforce development

Equal Opportunity Statement:
Seneca Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, genetic information and/or predisposing genetic characteristics, victim of domestic violence status, veteran status, or other protected class status. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation and training. The Company also prohibits retaliation against any employee who exercises his or her rights under applicable anti-discrimination laws. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company does give hiring preference to Seneca or Native individuals. Veterans with expertise in these areas are highly encouraged to apply.