Container Platform Lead

GD Information Technology•Austin, TX

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a CONTAINER PLATFORM LEAD supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a CONTAINER PLATFORM LEAD supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in Austin, Texas you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Join GDIT to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through the IOSS App Hosting program. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience
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
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting VA, federal agencies, or regulated environments
Kubernetes or OpenShift certifications; Docker/Kubernetes Security certifications; ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar credentials
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

Responsibilities

Oversee enterprise container hosting operations across Kubernetes environments in Azure, AWS, and on‑prem OpenShift
Ensure 99.9% uptime, secure configurations, automated deployment reliability, and consistent DevSecOps practices
Provide governance and performance oversight for control planes, worker nodes, GitOps pipelines, policy enforcement, cluster lifecycle operations, and vulnerability remediation
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
Manage platform performance measurement systems, coordinate testing cycles, validate SLAs, maintain dashboards and reporting packages, and embed DevSecOps requirements into all container lifecycle processes
Streamline deployment workflows, improve automation pipelines, enhance configuration consistency, and ensure container operations remain aligned, efficient, and compliant
Partner directly with VA leadership and service line managers to provide operational reviews, modernization roadmaps, incident analyses, and improvement recommendations
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

Benefits

Competitive pay
benefits
401(k) match
AI‑enabled professional growth tools
Leadership development and internal mobility programs
Mission-focused culture supporting Veterans
Opportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations
Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
A vision plan
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
Full flex work weeks where possible
Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance