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General Dynamics Information Technology$113K – $150K per yearUnited States only
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5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
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.
The likely salary range for this position is $112,840 - $149,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40 Travel Required:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes. About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans Originally posted on Himalayas
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