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