Remote Senior Configuration Engineer - Cloud & CM Lead

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Configuration Engineer to support VA applications and lead cloud migration efforts. You will build, maintain, and automate CM tools for identifying, controlling, reporting, and delivering both internal software and COTS products.

The role requires deep CM expertise, experience in regulated environments, and mentoring of junior staff. This is a fully remote, US-based position with a Public Trust (MBI) clearance as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading complex software builds/releases across environments.
• Experience in regulated/federal environments.
• Deep expertise in configuration management and release engineering.
• Broad knowledge of development, QA, systems engineering, and DevOps.
• Experience with CM practices: identification, baselining, change control, status accounting.

Responsibilities

• Support VA applications and lead migration to the cloud.
• Develop and maintain CM tools for identification, control, reporting and delivery of software (COTS and in-house).
• Perform CM and release engineering to document and standardize build parameters.
• Design/automate productivity tools to improve modeling and development.
• Create/build procedures to support software product development and use.
• Develop software CM standards for company-wide use.
• Train developers in CM tools and quality standards.
• Provide technical guidance and solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders frequently and work autonomously.

Skills

Software configuration management

Release engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Infrastructure as code

Git

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Team mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Git

GitLab

GitHub

Azure DevOps Repos

Subversion

Nexus/Artifactory

Jenkins

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Ansible

Terraform

JIRA

Azure Boards

Trello

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Configuration Engineer to support VA applications and lead cloud migration efforts. You will build, maintain, and automate CM tools for identifying, controlling, reporting, and delivering both internal software and COTS products.

The role requires deep CM expertise, experience in regulated environments, and mentoring of junior staff. This is a fully remote, US-based position with a Public Trust (MBI) clearance as a condition of employment.