Configuration and Change Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K with company match

Flexible work options

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Configuration and Change Manager to mature baselining, tracking, and control of changes across engineering, test, and integration environments.

You will support governance, workflows, and continuous improvement of CM practices while maintaining baselines and preventing drift. The role requires strong experience with Jira and Git, ITIL or CM certifications preferred, and a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in configuration management or change management.
• Experience owning and enforcing configuration and change control processes.

Responsibilities

• Mature baselining, tracking, and controlling changes across engineering, test, and integration environments.
• Manage governance, workflows, and continuous improvement of baselining and approval processes.
• Maintain configuration baselines across systems, software, and documentation to prevent drift.
• Stand up and enforce change workflows including intake, impact assessment, and boards.

Skills

Change Controls

Change Management Processes

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Jira

Git

Job description

Type of Requisition

Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications

Skills: Change Controls, Change Management Processes, Collaboration Certifications: None Experience: 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

Configuration and Change Manager Apply your expertise to mature how we baseline, track, and control change across engineering, test, and integration environments at GDIT. Here, you’ll support our customers’ most important missions with smart, scalable solutions while we support you in growing and developing your career in technology.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Configuration and Change Manager, you will bridge Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to bring discipline, traceability, and clear ownership to how changes are baselined, gated, and approved.

Own and mature the Change & Configuration Management practicer, including governance, workflows, and continuous improvement of baselining and approval processes.

Establish and maintain configuration baselines across systems, software, and documentation, and prevent configuration drift.

Stand up and enforce change workflows, including intake, impact assessment, approval boards, and documented disposition of changes.

Author and maintain governing documentation for the Change & Configuration Management practice, including the Change Management Process, board charters, CM Plan, and other supporting material.

Enforce adherence to configuration and change control processes across all program teams (inclusive of the engineering, test, and integration teams).

Experience administering version control practices (i.e., GIT), tying code and configuration changes back to approved change records.

Maintain and evolve Jira-based change and configuration workflows, including issue types and approval boards, to support the Change & Configuration Management practice.

Facilitate Change boards (Internal Engineering Review Board (ERB) and the Change Advisory Board (CAB)).

Collaborate with engineers and Scrum Masters to align change and configuration activities with sprint and release schedules.

Maintain traceability between changes and approved scope, reducing rework, risk, and complexity across environments and releases enabling cross collaboration Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and MBSE.

Maintain traceability between changes and approved scope, reducing rework, risk, and complexity across environments and releases.

Enable cross collaboration Engineering, Test, Integration, Lab, and MBSE.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your software development expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• Required Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in configuration management or change management, including direct experience owning and enforcing configuration and change control processes.
• Strong background working with systems engineers and with approval/governance bodies such as Change Boards.
• Required Technical Skills: Experience using Jira to manage change records, configuration items, and work backlogs within an Agile/Scrum delivery environment.
• Experience with Git repository management and version control practices, applied to configuration control.
• Desired Technical Skills: Experience configuring workflows, issue types, and approval gates in Jira or a comparable work-management platform.
• Desired Certifications: ITIL 4 Foundation or higher, configuration management certification (e.g., CMII), Agile/Scrum certification (e.g., CSM) is a plus.
• Security Clearance Level: Secret
• Required Skills and Abilities: Strong attention to detail and process discipline; ability to enforce standards consistently across cross-functional engineering and test teams; strong written and verbal communication skills to author governance documentation and lead approval board discussions.
• Preferred Skills: Experience working with Government customers; experience operating in a hybrid engineering/ITSM environment rather than a traditional service-desk setting.

Location: Remote. Up to 25% travel

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off
• Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

Explore a career in software development at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your dedication to advancing innovation.

The likely salary range for this position is $97,968 - $132,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: 10-25% Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote Additional Work Locations:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Identity Verification Process

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About Our Work

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