Container Platform Lead

GD Information Technology • Austin, TX

7d • Remote

About The Position

The Container Platform Lead oversees enterprise container hosting operations across Kubernetes environments in Azure, AWS, and on-premises OpenShift. The role is responsible for maintaining 99.9% uptime, secure configurations, reliable automated deployments, and consistent DevSecOps practices. It provides governance and performance oversight for control planes, worker nodes, GitOps pipelines, policy enforcement, cluster lifecycle operations, and vulnerability remediation.

Working with container engineers, DevSecOps teams, cybersecurity staff, developers, VA stakeholders, VA leadership, and service line managers, the lead strengthens platform reliability, security, automation, and modernization. The role manages performance measurement systems, coordinates testing, validates SLAs, maintains dashboards and reporting packages, and incorporates DevSecOps requirements throughout container lifecycle processes.

The lead improves deployment workflows, automation pipelines, configuration consistency, governance controls, standard operating procedures, and enterprise performance and security practices. The position also provides operational reviews, modernization roadmaps, incident analyses, and recommendations to help keep the VA container hosting environment resilient, scalable, secure, efficient, and compliant. The position supports the Department of Veterans Affairs through GDIT’s IOSS App Hosting program and is listed for Austin, Texas or remote work.

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.
• Expertise in hybrid cloud container platforms (Azure, AWS, and on-premises), cluster lifecycle management, and automation tooling.
• Strong understanding of IT service management (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.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting the 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-premises OpenShift.
• Ensure platform 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.
• Manage platform performance measurement systems, coordinate testing cycles, validate SLAs, and maintain dashboards and reporting packages.
• Embed DevSecOps requirements in container lifecycle processes.
• Streamline deployment workflows, improve automation pipelines, and enhance configuration consistency.
• Partner with VA leadership and service line managers on operational reviews, modernization roadmaps, incident analyses, and improvement recommendations.
• Identify modernization opportunities and resolve configuration and deployment gaps.
• Optimize automation, refine standard operating procedures, strengthen governance controls, and mature enterprise performance and security practices.
• Collaborate with container engineers, DevSecOps teams, cybersecurity staff, developers, and VA stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and 401(k) match.
• Medical plan options, including options with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options and a vision plan.
• Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on hire date.
• An additional 10 paid holidays per year, prorated based on hire date.
• Paid Family Leave of up to 160 hours in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, provided or available.
• Full-flex work weeks where possible.
• AI-enabled professional growth tools.
• Leadership development and internal mobility programs.
• Mission-focused culture supporting Veterans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior