# Configuration Manager

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we establish a new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization.

As a Configuration Manager, you will ensure baseline control, deployment coordination, and release governance across a complex environment.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead end-to-end configuration management across all environments (dev through IL5/IL6 production).

- Own CM plans, release procedures, baseline controls, governance models, and change workflows.

- Manage release calendars, cadences, readiness criteria, deployment windows, cutover and rollback planning, and post-release validation.

- Coordinate release planning and execution across engineering, DevOps, cloud, data, test, cyber, IA, operations, network automation, service management, and customer teams.

- Facilitate release readiness reviews, configuration control boards, go/no-go reviews, and retrospectives.

- Ensure release packages are complete, reviewed, documented, traceable, and approved.

- Maintain traceability across requirements, defects, risks, and changes using Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and associated CI/CD tools.

- Manage configuration control for software, scripts, data pipelines, dashboards, integrations, IaC, automation workflows, interfaces, COTS/FOSS components, and runbooks.

- Maintain environment baselines for non-prod, simulators, test environments, IL5/IL6 targets, and operational systems.

- Partner with DevOps to ensure CI/CD pipelines support controlled promotion with proper versioning, approval gates, automated tests, and artifact retention.

- Coordinate DoD-aligned security requirements, STIG configurations, vulnerability remediation, privileged access controls, and audit evidence.

- Manage release impacts across mission-critical capabilities.

- Oversee release and configuration coordination for AWS IL5/IL6 platforms and tools.

- Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, blockers, environment constraints, and coordination gaps.

- Provide timely status reporting on scope, readiness, risks, defects, deployment progress, and outcomes.

- Develop release dashboards, metrics, decision briefs, and health indicators.

- Support audits, customer reviews, engineering reviews, and readiness assessments through accurate CM records and release evidence.

- Drive continuous improvement of CM and release processes.

- Provide CM and release training, mentoring, and guidance across engineering and operations teams.

- Coordinate with external partners and adjacent systems on integration planning, data dependencies, release alignment, and interoperability.

**Requirements:**

- Active TS/SCI clearance.

- Security+ or equivalent.

- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years relevant experience.

- Experience leading or supporting CM, change management, deployment coordination, or baseline management for complex cloud, software, or mission systems.

- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional release planning, readiness, approval, deployment, and validation.

- Experience developing CM/release plans, change control processes, deployment/rollback plans, and release documentation.

- Experience coordinating releases across multiple environments.

- Experience with Agile/DevOps workflows.

- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git, and related traceability/versioning tools.

- Familiarity with CI/CD, artifact management, branching strategies, automated testing, and promotion pipelines.

- Ability to understand complex systems and coordinate dependencies, risks, impacts, and stakeholder decisions.

- Strong communication and organisational skills; ability to manage multiple releases.

- Proven ability to anticipate issues, close actions, resolve gaps, and maintain discipline in fast-paced environments.

- Experience supporting federal, defence, intelligence, or mission-critical programs.

**Benefits:**

- Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases.

- Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures.

- Collaborative, Agile environment.

- Dev platform based on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, and RedHat.

**Pay Range:** $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- DevOps
- ServiceNow
- Elastic
- AWS
- RedHat
- Jira
- Confluence
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- Scripting
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- DoD network or cyber operations
- AWS/AWS GovCloud
- IL5/IL6 environments
- ServiceNow ITSM
- Change processes
- IaC
- COTS/FOSS
- Security configs
- APIs
- Dashboards
- Schemas
- Deployment manifests
- CCBs
- CABs
- Readiness or approval reviews
- Compliance
- STIGs
- Vulnerability remediation
- Security scan evidence
- DoD cyber processes
- Distributed teams
- Multiple contractors
- ITIL
- SAFe
- Scrum
- PMP
- CMMI
- ISO

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