Configuration Manager - Federal IT Modernization

GCyber; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Matching

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Training and Professional Development

Job summary

GCyber is seeking an experienced Configuration Manager to lead configuration management, release governance, and deployment coordination across a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort. The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and a strong background in Agile/DevOps environments using ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, and related tools.

You will own plans, ensure traceability, facilitate change boards, and partner with DevOps to implement controlled promotions and auditable deployment evidence

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Eight years of relevant experience; additional experience may substitute for degree.
• Strong written and verbal communication across technical, operational, security, and customer teams.
• Experience leading CM, change control, deployment coordination, and release governance for complex systems.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps workflows, Jira, Confluence, Git/Bitbucket, CI/CD, artifact management, branching, automated testing, and promotion pipelines.
• Ability to understand complex dependencies and impose auditable control without hindering delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own configuration management plans, release procedures, baseline controls, governance models, change workflows, calendars, readiness criteria, deployment windows, cutover plans, rollback plans, and post-release validation.
• Coordinate release planning and execution across software engineering, DevOps, cloud, data, test, cyber, IA, infrastructure, operations, network automation, service management, customers, and partners.
• Facilitate configuration control boards, release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, deployment coordination, and retrospectives.
• Ensure release packages are complete, reviewed, traceable, approved, and supported by code, configurations, test evidence, security scans, deployment instructions, rollback plans, and release notes.
• Maintain traceability across requirements, defects, risks, decisions, versions, environments, and changes using Jira, Confluence, Git/Bitbucket and CI/CD tools.
• Control software, scripts, infrastructure as code, data pipelines, schemas, dashboards, integrations, interfaces, automation workflows, COTS and FOSS components, security configurations, manifests, and runbooks.
• Maintain environment baselines across development, test, simulation, IL5/IL6 targets, and operational systems.
• Partner with DevOps to implement controlled promotion, versioning, approval gates, automated tests, artifact retention, and auditable deployment evidence.
• Track and communicate release scope, readiness, risks, dependencies, blockers, defects, deployment progress, outcomes, and health indicators.
• Improve CM and release processes and provide practical training across engineering and operations teams.

Skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps workflows

Jira

Confluence

Git/Bitbucket

CI/CD

Release governance

Baseline management

Cross-functional coordination

Understanding dependencies

Security/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

ServiceNow

Elastic

Kafka

AWS

Red Hat

Jira

Confluence

Job description

GCyber is seeking an experienced Configuration Manager to lead configuration management, release governance, and deployment coordination across a mission-focused federal IT modernization effort. The role requires active TS/SCI clearance and a strong background in Agile/DevOps environments using ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, and related tools.

You will own plans, ensure traceability, facilitate change boards, and partner with DevOps to implement controlled promotions and auditable deployment evidence