# Transition Manager

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,840 - $121,900
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Transition Manager supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Austin, Texas, you will lead all technical, operational, and programmatic activities for the Phase-In period of the IOSS Application Services program.

You will manage the smooth transfer of responsibilities, processes, tooling, documentation, and operational ownership across major service lines including Identity & Access Management, Cybersecurity, PKI, Web/Middleware, Application Virtualization, Printer Security, Database Administration, and Operations Control.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Leading all Phase-In transition activities to ensure a seamless shift to full operational capability

- Managing knowledge transfer, documentation, SOPs, tooling access, and operational handoff across all Application Services domains

- Overseeing onboarding, account provisioning, baseline assessments, readiness checks, and transition risk mitigation

- Establishing transition governance including schedules, sync meetings, dependency mapping, risk boards, and stakeholder communications

- Ensuring alignment with federal cybersecurity requirements, VA Handbook 6500, TRM, and all PWS-defined security and privacy standards

- Coordinating cross-functional integration with Cybersecurity, ICAM, PKI, Web/Middleware, Virtualization, Printer Security, Database, and OC/CMOP teams

- Producing executive-ready reports, dashboards, and updates on readiness, risks, onboarding progress, and transition performance

- Ensuring validated documentation, SOPs, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks are fully transitioned to GDIT ownership

- Identifying modernization opportunities and ensuring the Phase-In establishes a foundation for Zero Trust, cloud migration, and long-term enterprise improvements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in enterprise IT operations, program management, or technical leadership

- Experience overseeing large-scale federal or enterprise IT transitions across multiple technical domains

- Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and compliance obligations (NIST SP 800-53, RMF, Zero Trust, TIC 3.0)

- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering and operations teams in multi-vendor environments

- Experience with modernization efforts across identity services, PKI, vulnerability management, database operations, web/middleware hosting, virtualization, and workflow automation

- Proven skills in project management, stakeholder communication, risk mitigation, status reporting, and governance

- Strong organizational skills, strategic thinking, and ability to present technical information to executive audiences

- Ability to support escalations, incident coordination, and enterprise governance activities as needed

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Competitive pay, benefits, 401(k) match, and wellness programs

- A collaborative, innovative, military-friendly workplace

- Opportunities to modernize VA's Application Services environment and lead enterprise transformation across critical systems nationwide

## Skills

### Required
- Enterprise Systems
- Information Technology Operations
- Program Management
- Risk Mitigation
- Cybersecurity
- Identity & Access Management
- PKI
- Web/Middleware
- Application Virtualization
- Database Administration

### Nice to have
- PMP
- PgMP
- SAFe
- ITIL v4
- Cloud platforms
- ICAM
- Virtualization
- Middleware
- Databases
- Enterprise monitoring

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