Description
As a CONTAINER PLATFORM LEAD supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), 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
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- 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
Benefits
- 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