The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a new “infrastructure operations as a service” model to reduce downtimes and streamline services, the agency’s Deputy Chief Information Officer of Infrastructure Operations Reggie Cummings told GovCIO Media & Research.
Cummings is responsible for four main portfolios: VA Enterprise Cloud, VA Platform One, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and SharePoint Online Services. His team is also building out a new model he termed “infrastructure operations (IO) as-a-service” to align with broader VA business models…
Cummings’ team uses a general DevSecOps framework to align with OIT, which focuses on strong security operations, automation, modernization and innovation. By taking a bimodal approach to software development, IO allows waterfall software development to continue without interference from DevSecOps practices within its infrastructure.
“That’s how we’re approaching it from a bimodal perspective. We don’t allow one area to infringe on the other. Both are still focused on security operations and automation; it’s just the speed at which they do that is a little different,” Cummings said…