Remote Senior Configuration Engineer – Cloud & CI/CD

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Virginia Beach (VA); Remote; USD 74,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to support VA applications and drive the migration to the cloud. The role emphasizes software configuration management, release engineering, and building automated tooling to enable scalable software delivery.

The ideal candidate has deep CM/DevOps expertise, experience in regulated federal environments, and strong mentoring capabilities to lead junior analysts in CM best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading and delivering complex software builds/releases across environments.
• Experience in large regulated or federal environments.
• Deep expertise in software configuration management and release engineering.
• Broad knowledge of development, QA, systems engineering, and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Support VA applications and migrate to the cloud.
• Develop and maintain CM tools for CM identification, control, reporting, and delivery of software and COTS products.
• Perform CM and release engineering tasks to ensure compliant, sustainable build parameters.
• Design, develop, automate, and maintain productivity tools to improve software modeling and development.
• Design and implement build procedures for software product development and use.
• Develop software configuration standards for company-wide use.
• Train developers in CM tools and quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance and solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders; lead and mentor junior analysts/engineers.

Skills

Software configuration management

Release engineering

DevOps

Scripting

CI/CD

Git and related repos

Communication skills

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps Repos

Subversion

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Nexus

Artifactory

Ansible

Terraform

JIRA

Azure Boards

Trello

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Configuration Analyst to support VA applications and drive the migration to the cloud. The role emphasizes software configuration management, release engineering, and building automated tooling to enable scalable software delivery.

The ideal candidate has deep CM/DevOps expertise, experience in regulated federal environments, and strong mentoring capabilities to lead junior analysts in CM best practices.