Senior IT Change Coordinator - Cloud and DevOps

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Senior IT Change Coordinator - Cloud and DevOps. The Senior IT Change Coordinator for Cloud and DevOps provides technical governance for cloud infrastructure, platform services, infrastructure as code, containers, and automated deployment pipelines. Working with cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, application, security, and operations teams, this role enables rapid delivery while ensuring automation, evidence, risk controls, resiliency, and recovery expectations remain effective.

Provides governance, risk oversight, and release coordination for enterprise network infrastructure. Ensures network changes are assessed, coordinated, tested, and implemented with minimal impact to business operations and technology services. Contributes to improvements in network change quality, service reliability, and Change and Release Management practices.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 5 days per week. This position will be based in San Antonio; TX. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Facilitates complex or large IT change requests meeting with change requestor to review, audit, and ensure change requests meet regulatory standards.
• Drives direction of appropriate rigor level based on the technical complexity and potential impact of change.
• Identifies quality issues within the department contributing to IT service delivery issues and ensure their resolution/success.
• Partners with internal and external SMEs to improve, synchronize, automate, and integrate process controls to include integration with other ITIL disciplines.
• Understands application of process controls and their interaction, anticipates, mitigates against them and/or ensures resolution.
• Assists in internal and external reviews on the effectiveness of the configuration management operations at USAA.
• Serves as escalation point for junior team members on moderately complex issues.
• Recognizes and escalates issues for proactive communication to stakeholders and provide guidance toward resolution.
• Provides consultation around IT change and release management tools, process and artifacts.
• Influences how the IT Change and Release organization and roles interrelate with the respective customers and other ITIL disciplines.
• May lead medium to large scale implementations.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What You Have:

• Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of IT change management, cloud engineering, DevOps, release management, platform engineering, or technical project management experience. Advanced knowledge of ITIL, cloud operations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, and deployment automation. Demonstrated experience implementing risk-based controls within automated delivery environments.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud operations, DevOps delivery, deployment automation, and change governance.
• Ability to evaluate pipelines, infrastructure as code, cloud dependencies, evidence, and recovery strategies.
• Demonstrated experience balancing delivery speed with risk-based governance and control requirements.
• Advanced facilitation, technical communication, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of cloud operational risk, security controls, resiliency, and compliance.

What Sets You Apart:

• ITIL 4, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, or relevant automation certification.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with container orchestration, site reliability engineering, policy as code, or GitOps.
• Experience designing automated change evidence, approvals, risk checks, or deployment controls.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $103,450- $197,730.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.