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Configuration Manager

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Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. The Mission Software Systems (MSS) team brings together expertise across intelligence, software, and cloud to deliver end-to-end capability supporting the full intelligence lifecycle.

In this role, you will establish and maintain the configuration controls needed to protect the integrity and traceability of complex systems. You will coordinate baselines, changes, and configuration records across hardware, software, documentation, and supporting environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain configuration management plans, procedures, item structures, and baselines.
  • Administer configuration control and change processes, ensuring proposed changes are assessed, approved, and traceable.
  • Maintain configuration status accounting and provide accurate reporting on versions, releases, and approved changes.
  • Support audits, reviews, and release activities by ensuring configuration evidence is complete, controlled, and accessible.

About You: You understand that disciplined configuration management enables reliable engineering and delivery decisions. You are comfortable working with detailed records, identifying inconsistencies, and coordinating change across multiple stakeholders.

Essential Skills:

  • Experience in configuration management within engineering, technology, or project environments.
  • Knowledge of configuration identification, baselining, change control, and status accounting.
  • Ability to manage configuration items across hardware, software, and technical documentation.
  • Experience supporting change boards, configuration audits, and release activities.
  • Capability in maintaining accurate records within configuration or product lifecycle tools.
  • Ability to work with engineers, quality teams, project managers, and customers.

Benefits:

  • Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
  • Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
  • Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
  • Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
  • Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

Skills

Nice to have

  • systems engineering
  • software release
  • asset management
  • configuration repositories
  • PLM tools
  • requirements management systems

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Melbourne-Victoria-Australia/Configuration-Manager_R-00195786

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