Container Platform Lead
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2) Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications: - Skills: KPI, Operational Reporting, Planning, Taking Initiative - Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: 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. 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 - 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 -