Program Analyst

Job Title

Lead release, configuration, and deployment management activities for the VR&E IT portfolio within a DevSecOps framework.

Plan, coordinate, and oversee secure, automated software releases using CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment patterns.

Maintain integrated release schedules and coordinate activities across business stakeholders, OIT, cybersecurity, contractors, and governance bodies.

Facilitate release planning ceremonies, readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-implementation assessments using DevSecOps performance metrics.

Manage configuration governance through CCB/CAB meetings and maintain CM processes and tools to ensure alignment with approved baselines.

Assess proposed changes for operational and security impacts and guide release sequencing to minimize risks.

Lead deployment readiness activities, including plans, rollback procedures, validation steps, communications, and automated verification.

Develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies, including automated functional, security, performance, and UAT testing within CI/CD workflows.

Coordinate compliance, cybersecurity, and ATO-related documentation, ensuring releases align with VA, federal, and NIST requirements.

Provide executive leadership with release dashboards, risk analyses, performance metrics, stakeholder updates, and recommendations to improve DevSecOps operations and IT portfolio governance.

This position is at the full performance level.

Full time, Monday through Friday

Not Available

Available, This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position.

This is not a virtual position.

Program Analyst; 422920

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US Department of Veterans Affairs