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GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.\nAt GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a CLOUD OPERATIONS LEAD supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs in Austin Texas, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.\nJoin GDIT to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through the Infrastructure Operations Support Services program\nHOW A CLOUD OPERATIONS LEAD WILL MAKE AN IMPACT\nAs the Cloud Operations Lead, you will oversee enterprise cloud operations across the VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC)-ensuring availability, reliability, security compliance, capacity optimization, and modernization readiness across all cloud service providers.\nYou will manage cloud operational workflows, orchestration pipelines, monitoring tools, incident processes, service catalog offerings, and capacity forecasts. 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You will drive continuous improvement by identifying operational gaps, optimizing autoscaling and orchestration processes, strengthening documentation, expanding automation, and maturing cloud performance management practices.\nYour work ensures VA’s cloud environments remain secure, scalable, resilient, and mission-ready.\nWhat You’ll Need to Succeed\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5+ years of experience\nExperience leading cloud operations, monitoring, major incident response, or cloud governance in enterprise IT environments\nDemonstrated expertise with multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, VAEC), cloud monitoring tools, and operational frameworks\nStrong understanding of ITSM, cloud service delivery, cloud governance, and enterprise-class configuration management\nAbility to evaluate cloud documentation, workflows, capacity models, monitoring systems, and operational outputs for completeness, accuracy, and compliance\nExperience developing cloud performance plans, audit artifacts, dashboards, and corrective-action processes\nExcellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills\nAbility to collaborate across cloud engineering, network, cybersecurity, hosting operations, and federal organizations\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience supporting VA, federal programs, or large regulated cloud environments\nCloud certifications (Azure, AWS, multi-cloud operations, monitoring, or DevOps certifications), ITILv4, Six Sigma, or similar credentials\nFamiliarity with cloud security requirements, vulnerability management, TIC standards, VA Handbook 6500, and cloud governance practices\nExperience with cloud orchestration, automation frameworks, incident management tools, monitoring platforms, APIs, and performance analytics\nSecurity Clearance\nMust be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance\nLocation:\nAustin, TX (hybrid)\nNo visa sponsorship is available for this position\nGDIT IS YOUR PLACE:\nAI-enabled professional growth tools\nLeadership development and internal mobility programs\nCompetitive pay, benefits, and 401(k) match\nMission-focused culture supporting Veterans\nOpportunities to modernize VA’s cloud financial ecosystem and strengthen cost efficiency, accountability, and business value across nationwide operations\nThe likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. 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:\n40Travel Required:\nLess than 10%Telecommuting Options:\nHybridWork Location:\nUSA TX AustinAdditional Work Locations:\nTotal Rewards at GDIT:\nOur 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. 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