Own your opportunity to be on the frontlines of health innovation. Deliver for America’s health agency missions and enhance lives for hundreds of millions every day.
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a CONTAINER PLATFORM LEAD supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) through the IOSS App Hosting program.
HOW A CONTAINER PLATFORM LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
As the Container Platform Lead, you will oversee enterprise container hosting operations across Kubernetes environments in Azure, AWS, and on‑prem OpenShift—ensuring 99.9% uptime, secure configurations, automated deployment reliability, and consistent DevSecOps practices.
You will provide governance and performance oversight for control planes, worker nodes, GitOps pipelines, policy enforcement, cluster lifecycle operations, and vulnerability remediation. You will work closely with container engineers, DevSecOps teams, cybersecurity staff, developers, and VA stakeholders to strengthen reliability, security, automation, and modernization across VA’s container ecosystem.
You will manage platform performance measurement systems, coordinate testing cycles, validate SLAs, maintain dashboards and reporting packages, and embed DevSecOps requirements into all container lifecycle processes. You will streamline deployment workflows, improve automation pipelines, enhance configuration consistency, and ensure container operations remain aligned, efficient, and compliant.
You will partner directly with VA leadership and service line managers to provide operational reviews, modernization roadmaps, incident analyses, and improvement recommendations. Your communication ensures transparency, alignment, and stakeholder confidence across the platform.
You will drive continuous improvement by identifying modernization opportunities, resolving configuration and deployment gaps, optimizing automation, refining SOPs, strengthening governance controls, and maturing enterprise performance and security practices. Your leadership ensures VA’s container hosting environment remains resilient, scalable, secure, and continuously advancing.
What You’ll Need to Succeed – REQUIRED:
Citizenship: No visa sponsorship is available for this position
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Year’s of Experience: 5 years of experience
Technical Skills:
• Experience leading container platform operations, Kubernetes/OpenShift management, DevSecOps workflows, or cloud‑native hosting environments
• Demonstrated expertise in hybrid cloud container platforms (Azure, AWS, on‑prem), cluster lifecycle management, and automation tooling
• Strong understanding of ITSM, service delivery, platform governance, and enterprise‑class configuration management
• Ability to evaluate container documentation, cluster configurations, workflows, and automation pipelines for completeness, accuracy, and compliance
• Experience developing performance plans, audit artifacts, dashboards, and corrective‑action processes
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across container engineering, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations
Location: Austin, TX or Remote
Desired Qualifications
• Kubernetes or OpenShift certifications
• Docker/Kubernetes Security certifications
• ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar certification credentials
• Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or regulated environments
• Familiarity with container security requirements, vulnerability management, DevSecOps frameworks, and cloud governance practices
• Experience with GitOps pipelines, CI/CD tooling, automation frameworks, observability platforms, and performance analytics
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
• AI‑enabled professional growth tools
• Leadership development and internal mobility programs
• Competitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match
• Mission‑focused culture supporting Veterans
• Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations
Years of Experience
5 + years of related experience
* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification
Travel Required
Less than 10%
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