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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Configuration Manager, SME - TS/SCI with Polygraph

GDIT Chantilly, VA On-site senior full-time

Salary

$228,650 - $309,350 per year

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Description

Join a mission-critical technology program as a Configuration Manager SME, helping design, secure, and modernize a vital communications ecosystem that keeps field-to-base operations running around the world. This role involves technical leadership in a high-visibility program supporting national security missions, working with cutting-edge cloud, development, and infrastructure technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Own end-to-end operational health of the platform, ensuring systems stay secure, available, and performing to standard.
  • Lead a full-spectrum O&M practice spanning monitoring, availability and resiliency, configuration management, system administration, incident response, deployment support, and auditing.
  • Build and maintain resilient, highly available infrastructure with proactive failure detection, automated recovery, and well-tested contingency plans.
  • Drive continuous improvement in system performance and reliability.
  • Provide tiered technical support with the responsiveness needed to keep the mission running.
  • Guide smooth transitions, whether onboarding new releases, migrating data, or decommissioning legacy systems.
  • Champion strong configuration management and audit discipline.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of related experience
  • TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
  • US citizenship required
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science education
  • Critical Core Competencies: Cloud Services, Event Bus Programming

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Growth opportunities with an AI-powered career tool
  • Internal mobility team focused on helping achieve career goals

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Oracle
  • Google
  • Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
  • RabbitMQ
  • Apache Kafka
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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